Good lte, Kathy. While the nanny state advocates have no problem with the government allowing the sale of booze to the Tolly Carrs of the world, they have a huge problem with someone lighting up or allowing others to light up on their own property. (It's harmful to the CHILDREN don't you know) The smoke police and the sheep that follow them have an uncontrollable desire to dictate what other people do and how they behave, and they do it KNOWING full well what is best for the uneducated masses.

Booze has yet to ascend to the politically incorrect status as the dreaded second-hand smoke issue...yet.

I suspect once the nannys are successful in the war on tobacco this will become the next bleep on their radar screens.

Kathy,
I doubt very seriously that you can speak for 33,000 people. It sounds dramatic but I suspect that everyone in FreedomWorks does not agree with your opinion on this subject.
And you say "Choice is the key word in this important debate" but not once in your letter do you even mention the word "health".
Why is that?
Do you, like so many others who think like you do, believe that the Surgeon General is just issuing an opinion on secondhand smoke's danger and that it's not based on medical fact?
The "choice" should be that every employee in NC is protected from exposure to secondhand smoke.
Believe it or not Kathy, this is a health issue.

Smokers of the...cough, cough....smokers of cough, cough, cough...Smokers of the world..cough, cough...UNITE!

It will take the large tobacco corporations to lobby for smoking rights, as the only folks who smoke today are either vestiges of another age, or the ignorant and undereducated.

I don't mind if a guy smokes alone in his business, as long as he doesn't throw the butt out his window.

I don't mind if a guy smokes alone in his business, as long as he doesn't throw the butt out his window.

(I posted twice, in case it's a new rule or something).

Neo, look for the nannies to go after Big Food next. It's already happening with NYC and other cities banning trans fats. Chicago banned fois gras, not for health reasons per se but to appease the PETA crowd.

Kathy,

The state doesn't give the property owner any choice in many other health and work conditions that he must accommodate if he wants to do business in North Carolina. In this issue where property, health, and workers rights conflict the state has the obligation to arbitrate that conflict.

Kathy put me down on the "this legislation is a step in the right direction" camp.

Posted by Rufus_T.Firefly [TypeKey Profile Page] | March 31, 2007 8:31 AM

Dan,
Since you are now "cozying" up to the Village Idiot, let me ask you this: Do you want your children around smokers? How 'bout second hand smoke? Do you think you should HAVE to buckle your child in a safety belt?

Just wondering how far you will go with neo's tutoring.

Demon Deacon/DD, your questions have nothing to do with the subject. I don't expose my kids to cig smoke, nor myself. That has nothing to do with a bar owner deciding his/her policy about how to run their business.

BTW, my kids don't hang out in bars.

Have you noticed how obsessed the world traveler has become with me since I've been pointing out his cowardice for cringing under the Canadian flag while traveling? He has gone beserk. It's great entertainment.

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The PETA crowd, the smoke nazis, and the sheeple who think only the state knows what's best for your children (note the Canadian wannabee's seat belt comment) are all cut from the same cloth.
They are either 1) nanny state advocates who want to micro-manage everyone else's life, or 2) they are but sheep, willing to be led around by the nose of group #1. (the world traveler belongs to the latter herd, I'd judge)