DINNERTABLE DEBATE-SMOKING CESSATION-NOT THE TeDDY ROOSEVELT FIRESIDE CHAT WE REMEMBER!?Hello. Around the dinner table tonight, there was a debate over a supposedly law making it illegal to smoke on the streets, and smoking 16 feet from any doorway, or something similiar. The law is already in effect in Chicago.
Anyway, the debate was whether it was constitutional, and just plain, whose rights are being sacrificed. I personally am a smoker and I am for the law, because it does infringe on peoples' rights and is highly offensive to smell smoke walking down the street. I am very curteous when I smoke, but unfortunately, I think I lie in a small margin of people who are. Anyway, what do you think. Even if it is not a law that will be going into effect Jan. 1,2008, what if it were? What is your stance on the topic. ENLIGHTEN ME...and hopefully I win the debate. (Kinda cool how you can be so interactive!) I will post the winner of the debate in 2 hours roughtly. Randy-for cessation or Jasper, not for it, and put reasons why!~ TYVM!!!
omg, How embarrassing, it was FDR's Fireside Chats, guess I got the Roosevelt's mixed up, hahaha.
Myameeeee Girl
It was FDR's fireside chat.
jafunmi82
Smoking on the street is okay under the new law, but not w/in 15 ft of the door or an open window. The new law in Chicago will allow smoking in anyplace that gets 80% or more of it's revenue from sale of tobacco, but they can't serve food. If they were in business when the law takes effect, they can be in a building w/ other businesses, if they start their business after, it must be in a single business building.
Sean D
While an extreme viewpoint, smoking next to someone else could be considered battery (tort, not criminal) as you are causing that person bodily harm.
squeak
I like it maybe you are courteous but a lot of smokers aren't. My aunt can't take her daughter to any restaurants or stores that allow smokers because she has really bad asthma and people are always blowing smoke in her face. I don't care if people smoke on the streets but If you have to smoke you should in my opinion have the decency to do it at home or a good distance away from businesses.
words for the birds
People have the freedom to choose for themselves whether or not they will breathe. Therefore, if they choose to breathe, and some icky smoke goes up their nostrils, it's their own fault.
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