[Mishmash] Can it really be?????

Wed Jan 2 20:25:48 CST 2008

that's just fine for you hugh - but now in illinois you cannot smoke in your
on business in your own office if ANYONE other than you ever enters.  now
frankly, that sucks.  i certainly agree that the business owner should be
able to decide these things but nobody, NO BODY, has started up anything to
say that this is an infringement on anyone's rights.  just lead us to the
cattle cars and take us to the showers.  this was supposedly for the health
of those working in a smoking environment - only thing is i've notice that
at all the restaurants and bars in my town   those that work there are
smokers.
cb

-------Original Message-------

From: Hugh Gigante
Date: 1/2/2008 6:53:52 PM
To: Mishmash
Subject: Re: [Mishmash] Can it really be?????

Here's my take on smoking laws.

Smoking is not illegal. It probably is not any worse for health than someone
wearing perfume (you should only know what is in that crap.

So, given that it is legal and smokers are part of the public (and therefor
own public spaces just like everyone else) why do we allow their rights to
be discriminated against?

Laws effecting private spaces are worse. Why do we allow fools to impose
rules on, say a restaurant? That is, after all, a private place nobody is
forced to enter. If a restaurant owner wants to allow smoking and people don
t like it, they simply won't patronize the place . . . just like if he
serves bad food. But it is the owners right to decide how to run his
establishment, not some putz who got himself elected. 

I have a private company with less that 50 employees, which puts me under
the radar for the social gestapo. Outside the rear door is a very neat sign.

It says "Employee non smoking area". Anyone who works for me knows they can
step outside any time they want and not smoke.

BTW I got the idea from the pastor of my church.

Hugh
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Robyne Kerr 
To: Mishmash 
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 7:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Mishmash] Can it really be?????

I think we have far too many laws and most are about making money than
saving lives.  We have had the smoking laws in Tasmania for years and now it
is just part of life.  The latest one is that you can't smoke in your own
car if children are in it. They are gradually making public space a not
smoke zone. I don't smoke but I don't agree with these kind of laws.

I have smoking friends so I go to the smoking areas with them, every pub has
an area set aside outside but that would be hard in the snow.  The smoking
laws here are just getting stronger each year.

Robyne   

well, since i was already old in 2007 - i don't really feel any older today.
 i went to my daughter's annual new years eve party last nite.  not as many
there as usually because it started snowing and blowing around here in the
afternoon and the roads were pretty bad.  (we live a in a very small rural
town remember - no one cleans the streets and roads unles we get 6 or more
inches it seems - and the country roads are the worst).   we played a game
called catch phrase until people started to leave before midnite afraid they
wouldn't get home at all.  then we played a game called scene it - about
movies.  i was very bad at that one.

this morning my friends called to see if i were going to go for coffee and i
still had my jammies on - i told them to come over here and watch the parade
with me so i had a house full of old women all morning.  i intend not to
leave my house today.

 illinois just implemented a law today to have no smoking in all bars,
restaurants, private clubs even and smokers have to be 15 feet from a door
outside.   you know, i have been socially unacceptable with my smoking and
so have most of my friends.  we have coffee every morning to check up on
each other as we all live alone.   if someone isn't there and we didn't know
ahead of time it is time to start calling them.  we're really upset about
this law but will try it for awhile - if we decide coffee isn't fun anymore
we will all congregate at my house.   my non-smoking friends are as unhappy
about the law as my smoking friends.  i often wondered how the nazi's were
able to just round up all the jews and they all got on the trains and filed
into the showers.  i'm beginning to see more and more how that could have
happened - we just blindly do whatever our legislators deem right for all of
us and most of them are a bunch of hired blowhards.  they even want the
citizenry to report on people disobeying this law.  now, didn't the nazi's
implement that tattling on your neighbor plan?  ok - i've vented.  happy new
year you guys.
carole
-------Original Message-------

From: GALEHALLOCK at aol.com
Date: 1/1/2008 10:20:15 AM
To: mishmash at mishmash.net
Subject: [Mishmash] Can it really be?????

Happy New Years dear friends.  Can it really be 2008?????
That makes me.........ahhhhhh........uhmmmmmmm........errrrrrrr............
quite old!!!! 

Gale

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