State Smoking Ban
Public Places- Paid for with Public Money. At Joe’s Bar & Grill, Joe should decide if smoking is OK.
Tell the guys at the VFW who took hot lead in WWII, Korea, Vietnam and Iraq that secondhand smoke is too dangerous and they must go outside and smoke no less than 25 feet from their Post.
Welcome Home Troops.
Most people seem to believe in freedom- in many cases- just not outside of their own personal choices.
Some say that no employer has the right to expose employees to known health hazards-
What about the guys who join a crew to fish for crab in Alaska- some of those guys go out and never come back again.
We know that drinking is not for everyone.
We have liquor licenses to maintain individual choice for private business operators and customers in this area.
Why not have a similar plan for smoking?
A percentage of owners could obtain a license to operate a private business where customers and employees could smoke indoors.
We are working hard to spread freedom across the globe - maybe we should take some of the filters off of freedom here at home. Those filters weren’t put in place by terrorists or foreign governments.
Peaceable, responsible, adult choices should be left to individuals to make.
Imagine people deciding how to run their own lives and being OK with others deciding how to run theirs.
Freedom is for everyone. Deciding how to act on that freedom should not require conformity to a “one size fits all” government mandate.
If tobacco is really so evil, maybe the government should not profit from it.
1960’s Elementary School Valentine
found along with childhood items my parents had set aside.
Ads for cigarettes could be viewed on black and white TV in those days.
I never started smoking - Live and Let Live
