Green Owl wrote:
It's not the choice of the government to ban something like smoking. It really isn't, it's an individual choice, people choose to smoke, they're not seduced, they know what happens, they choose to do it. So...let them do it. Banning smoking is in some ways like saying 'let's ban alcohol' it's just as dangerous if not more so right? Why has no one done anything about it yet? Because it failed in 1933. The same effects would probably occur. It's a persons personal choice to smoke and to drink. People know the risks and they do it anyway; then they bitch about the effects. They knew it going in, and they did it anyway.
Well, don't they have laws against being drunk in public? I'm having difficult finding the texts (except where in Australia), but I thought that's how the brown bag came to be so associated with drinking from the bottle. You had to have a brown bag over the bottle you were drinking out of, otherwise you were fined. >.>
http://www1.enoughisenough.com.au/pages/alcoholLaw.asp wrote:
It is illegal for any person to consume alcohol on unlicensed premises (e.g. someone’s house, the town hall) without the consent of the owner or group in control of those premises.
I assume the laws are in place do to personal responsibility matters. You can't do drugs (illegal, alcohol, or tobacco) on someone else's property without their permission. <b>Is it infringing on the smoker's rights if they're ignoring their <u>personal responsibility</u> to behave themselves on someone else's (or government) property?</b> The logic behind your arguement seems rather silly to me.
What law could you defend the freedom of the choice to harm yourself on someone else's property when they forbid you from doing so?
Though the fact that the government has to step in to enforce the whole situation is rather... unsettling when it deals with privately owned business. It forces every business owner/house owner to comply, whether or not the owner cares. Not that I imagine it'll be strictly enforced.
And KryKry, you're putting forth rather reasonable arguements, and getting stupidity back as a result. It's natural to be irritated, but I wouldn't say that you sound like MiB.