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Originally posted by Yorick:
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Originally posted by John D Harris:
When I was young this was a free country!!!!!!!!!
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And now it's even freer! Nonsmokers are no longer forced to inhale the tobacco that smokers exhale! It's very freeing to be able to breathe more easily. [img]smile.gif[/img] Healthier too. Gives more freedom of movement and athleticism. Long live free America! (and Australia and other places that have banned public smoking)
The word is... if you want to ruin your health, don't take down others with you. 
As far as sound waves go, we all emit them. It's not like there are some humans that do, and some that don't. You move, you make noise. You breathe you make noise.
Whether the soundwaves of another raises ones stress level is also dependent on THE LISTENER. The listener has the power to choose response. Chooses to react and chooses to let something bother them.
You will never make me angry. I will always only choose be angry at what you've done.
Smoke on the other hand will harm my health whether I choose to respond or not.
Also, by declaring that the waitress has the choice you're ignoring that now the smoker has the choice. You can always walk outside and have a cig. A one minute stroll. That means that the waitress doesn't have to choose between eating, or breathing cleaner air. [/QUOTE]Yorick, the fact of business is: You have to keep the customer happy or they don't buy your product or service, period! And I'm Not ingoring the fact the customer can walk out I'm just not putting the empolyee before the customer that buys the product or service that pays the business which alows the business to pay their employees.
No it is not a freer country, you think it is because your side has FORCED others to nolonger have the choice of doing something you disagree with. How the "Hale" would you "feel" if the shoe was on the other foot.
If you choose not to respond you still have made a choice. You are ingoring (using your logic)
that you have the choice to remove yourself from the enviroment where there is smoking. but prehaps that doesn't work both ways Hmmm?
I smoke, cheap foul smelling cigars, if you don't like it don't come to my house. I smoke at work if you don't like it don't patronize my business. But It WILL be a cold day in "Hale" before I'm forced to stop, they'll plant my red-neck rear end in the ground before I'm forced to doing anything I don't want to do.