I have to confess to being terribly selfish on this issue. Normally I like to take a balanced view of almost everything; in a case like this I should be thinking about the passive-smoking harm to customers, their choice to be there or not, the passive-smoking harm to employees, their choice to be there or not, the general ethics of the State dictating what we should or shouldn't do and the question of whether any given harm is bad enough to make it worth having a law, the question of enforceability, and probably nine or ten other factors which have momentarily slipped my mind. I generally find it easy to see both sides of an argument, and often find it rather more difficult to make up my mind into a clear opinion one way or the other.
But in this particular case, I find my lungs outvoting my brain two to one. I'm very fond of breathing, and in spite of all the potential objections to a ban I simply cannot find it in me to disapprove of a measure which will allow me to do so more conveniently in a wider range of places.
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Date: 2006-02-15 01:29 pm (UTC)But in this particular case, I find my lungs outvoting my brain two to one. I'm very fond of breathing, and in spite of all the potential objections to a ban I simply cannot find it in me to disapprove of a measure which will allow me to do so more conveniently in a wider range of places.