Smoking Ban Myth Myths

Article By Writer Michael Kraft Author: Michael Kraft
Published: May 1, 2007
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Here is an excerpt from the Susan Burgess organization to force people to do as they are told. IN the name of saving you from yourself I give you the myths about myths about smoking. These are their explanations to deflect the right infringing laws they propose.

“MYTH #3: Because restaurants and bars belong to the owners, they should be able to use their property with no restrictions.

REALITY: Restaurants, bars, and other facilities are rightly regulated when public health is a concern. The importance and effectiveness of sound public health and safety laws, like restaurant hygiene laws, is well established. Restaurants and bars must already follow rules that protect the public from insects and rodents, employees who refuse to wash their hands before preparing food, unsafe cooking practices that could cause food poisoning, and fire safety problems. Secondhand smoke is just as dangerous.”

REAL REALITY WITHOUT LIBERAL SPIN: Restaurant owner that put a sign out front saying smoking establishment is their own property and safety is followed.

Restaurants are regulated, but they serve, french fries, onion rings, cake, alchohol, fried chicken, bacon, cookies, butter, oil in salad dressing, thick red meat steaks and about 500 other things that cause heart disease.

These things are on the menu but you dont have to order them. All of these things are bad for your health but you know before you come in, so you make your own decision.

Anti-smoking tells a property owner what to do with his property, it has no connection to food health or cleanliness at all this is BS spin trying to change the issue. If the liberals lefists want to go after fried chicken and french fries next,…..at least they would be consistant in their pursuits.

To try to connect the right of owners to choose the type of restaurant they operate, to the food preperation laws?

This is standard stuff for people whos’ ego wants to make decisions for you.

6 Responses to “Smoking Ban Myth Myths”

Michael Miner on July 21st, 2007 5:30 pm

Man, are you ever stupid. Having a no smoking section is like having a “no pissing” section of a pool. If some eats a french fry, it does NOT effect my health. Idsome loser bastard smokes next to me, I am forced to breath his toxins. Use you fucking head, dumd ass.
Michael Kraft on July 21st, 2007 6:34 pm

Thanks for the extremely intelligent viewpoint.

You are not forced to breathe anything. You can walk out.

Or you can tell the owner you wont come back unless he changes the policy.

He then gets to choose what he wants for HIS RESTUARANT.

Its about choice, you have the right to choose to leave, or he has the right to choose to change to NON smoking.

YOU DONT THOUGH have any right to tell him how to run his business.

Being in a restaurant that IS NOT YOURS as a customer is a priviledge, not your right.

But thanks for the response that just makes your side of this argument look foolish and foul mouthed.
Michael Kraft on July 21st, 2007 6:38 pm

Frredom is about choices.

In my scenerio you have the choice of where to eat, when to leave and when to complain to the owners. and the owner has the choice of who to cater to and what is best for HIS business.

In your scenerio, you get to decide what the patrons and the owner of a restaurant must do to fit your personal choices, forcing your decision on him.

You can see which is American and based in freedom of choice and which is liberal and bases in forcing your ideals on others.

But Ill try to use my head in the future and come up with a strong case like you presented. Thanks for sharing you obvious higher education with our readers.
Michael Kraft on July 21st, 2007 6:45 pm

Also did you notice it is the article and not my reply that equates smoking laws to food handling laws, not me.

“protect the public from insects and rodents, employees who refuse to wash their hands before preparing food, unsafe cooking practices that could cause food poisoning, and fire safety problems.”
Adam on February 2nd, 2008 7:48 pm

Nobody forces anybody to stay in a place for smokers. What’s wrong with you people? If u consider the smoke unhealthy then go somewhere else? There are warning signs. Are you so dull Mr Michael Miner that you cant understand basic symbols. Are you gonna stand on the railways as a train approaches?
Tami Soper on February 14th, 2008 1:43 pm

Those who would argue that you have a choice about where to eat, have obviously never lived in a small town. Often in small towns in the state where I reside, the bar and the only restaurant in town are one and the same. Meetings for civic organizations are held in these facilities as well as gatherings of local government agencies.

Not to mention young people who are employed in these facilities frequently have limited options for employment and may not fully recognize the impact of consistant exposure until irreversable damage has been done.

The bottom line is that secondhand smoke kills.