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> If a private business wishes to permit its customers to consume something on its premises, why does the State have to get involved? Smoking is banned in rest
by cballard 11y ago
> If a private business wishes to permit its customers to consume something on its premises, why does the State have to get involved?
Smoking is banned in restaurants because it's harmful to the waitstaff. The State should be involved for the same reason that it's involved in any other labor law.
- zeveb 11y ago> Smoking is banned in restaurants because it's harmful to the waitstaff. I wasn't aware that waiters are enslaved. Of course, if they have a free choice to choose to work in a restaurant which allows smoking or not … that's their free choice. And the pseudoscience behind so-called 'secondhand smoke' is thoroughly discredited. Anti-smoking bigotry is just that: prejudiced, emotional, unthinking bigotry. But it's socially acceptable bigotry. Folks gotta have their two minutes' hate!