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1st Jul 2015redshoes53 commented on:
Should smoking be brought back into pubs?I am deeply disturbed by the anti-smoking hysteria that I have watched develop over the past 20 years. I am of the age that I remember (and it wasn't that long ago) before all of this anti -smoking Jihad started. Some people smoked, some people didn't. People smoked every where - movie theaters; obviously pubs and restaurants; doctors would sit on the end of your bed in a hospital with a ciggie in their hand - yet no one RAN off, choking and gagging and making a gigantic dramatic scene! One thing that is never mentioned in this debate is the most simple and fundamental common sense solution, and that is: some establishments, whether office or eatery allow smoking and some do not. Let the business owner choose. Is it too much to ask that non-smokers patronize non-smoking establishments? The part I have never understood (and the mentality that scares the you-know-what out of me) is why the extreme anti's insist - DEMAND - on controlling everything and everyone - even places they will never go. What kind of pathology is that? All I know is that it is very scary - the pathology of zealots. How can you not relate to the concept of living your own life as you wish and allowing others to live their lives as they wish? Live and let live?