NOW!! if smoke effected you that much, and it was not all in your mind (or you are prevaricating) you could not be a volunteer firefighter, because of physical (or mental) disabilities.<br /><br />"I have a friend that had a sever respiratory ailment. Left him with acute smell. He can smell smoke at 100 yards, outside, and it makes him sick - literally. What is that man to do if smoking is allowed any and every where?" <br /><br /> NOW!! This is absolute fiction, or one helluva lot of exageration. 100 yards, is 3600 inches, or 300 feet, or 1/18th of a mile, if I should walk that far from your friend, and light a cigaret (I am a non smoker by the way) he absolutely positively could not smell it if he was blindfolded and could not see it. As I said in most cases it is either psychosomatic, and/or prevarification. <br /><br />Wvit100, you said,<br />"What if I said I don't think the gov. has the right to come into my establishment and inspect the kitchen? Do you think we should not have any regulations as far as health or safety?"<br /> <br /> My answer, yes we/I/you/they should have the right to tell that health inspector to stay the h**l out of my/your/their establishment, then it would be up to the individual, you, I, Carphunter, or anyone else, to come into my establishment, and eat, or if I/we/they would rather, they could go to an inspected class "A" establishment and spend their money. As long as I was not harming/hurting anybody, leave me alone to my own devises, that my dear fellow is freedom, as the forefathers established, not what we have today.
Well, I don't have my group, just happy to stand on my own.<br /><br />Guess I got drawn into this discussion,(arguement), not realizing that I never had a chance. <br /><br />Lakeman, if I said what you said, then it would have been considered a personal attack by others, wierd ain't it.<br /><br />Guess I will just never fit in,.....darn it. <br /><br />I'm really a hunter anyway,.....why I hang out on a fishing forum, I don't know.<br /><br /> I think you can still **** in the street in most of the rest of the world though...<br /><br />You don't have the right to drive 100 mi/hour simply becuase it is being done on PUBLIC roads where you would be putting other people in harms way. You can do 100 mi/hour on a Private road - see the difference? I guess not...<br /><br />Let's take a look at that word, public:<br /><br />public<br /> <br />Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to private; as, the public treasury.<br /><br />Yup, private property ain't public....<br /><br />Just stop thinking about smoking for a minute and take a braoder view. What happens when a nation begins to chp away at the long established freedoms of its citizens even if it's in the name of a good cause? Well, you get people suing McDonalds for making them fat. Suing to have Oreos declared a health hazard. Airlines afraid to serve peanuts. Etc., etc., etc.<br /><br />I have a VERY SERIOUS allergy to MSG. Did you know MSG is in just about eveything you eat these days? Everything. Even the very best restaraunts use it in the salad dressings, soups, bread crumbs, etc. Now, am I out there trying to get MSG banned? No. Why not? BECAUSE IT IS MY PROBLEM AND MY RESPONSIBILITY TO DEAL WITH IT!<br /><br />"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor safety."<br />Benjamin Franklin - November 11, 1755 <br />I don't think smoking should be allowed in public places like stores, museums and such. I think smoking should be allowed in resturaunts but in a seperate room than the non-smoking section and only then with ventilation. I think that smoking should only be allowed in bars with a lot of ventilaton. This was not the opinion i had when I was young nor is cancer the reason behind this. My opinion has changed over the years because of my wife. Smoking does not bother me (unless you are close to me as I am eating) but it does my wife. She has developed a mild alergy to smoke. In a big room with one or two smokers it is not bad but in a closed bar where the smoke can not escape she starts to get a headache, nose gets a stuffy and eyes water. We more than once have had to leave a bar or nightclub that we went to with friends, enjoy a band or just be out because the smoke started getting to her. We have been to the same places on the same type of nights when the door was open and a fan or two was going and she had no problems. Is this a place we have to go? No it is not but it is a place we enjoy going and we should be able to do it w/o needing a respirator or her getting sick. I feel everyone has the right to do certian things drinking and smoking are among them but I feel that when others pleasure adversly affects people to where they have to give up things that give them pleasure something needs to be done. BTW I am not talking second hand smoke and cancer and such but rather people that it gives a more immediate medical problem.
do not change the point that if people respected the conditions of others, you are correct, we would not need laws that effect our freedoms.<br /><br />As for the peanut issue - I too used to think that it was only eating peanuts, but because of working EMS, have seen people who have swelled up like a ballon because they touched a ball that someone else touched, that had eated peanuts. Also had a case wehre a person swelled up because someone was eating peanuts in the same room.<br /><br />Am I saying peanuts should be outlawed? No! But I have learned that people are effected by them in different ways and so I am careful where I eat them and even when I serve them or cook with them in my own home.<br /><br />What am I trying to say? If more people were considerate of others, this discussion would be mute. We wouldn't need laws because everyone would be looking out for everyone else.
<br /><br />It's the peanuts. 
