re: New Orleans City Council Passes Smoking Ban

I don't get why y'all can't understand that smoke free bars already exist, voluntarily, the way it should be. There are plenty of them and if you want to go to a bar and not be around smoke then you should support them and give them your business.

Of those 40,000 deaths from secondhand smoke in that statistic you threw out, I wonder how many of them were forced to be around the smoke?

I know for me personally, I am not around smoke very much at all really. I don't like being around smoke, so I choose to go to smoke free bars when I go out. On the rare occasions that I do go to bars that allow smoking with friends, I am making a conscious decision as a consenting adult that I will probably be around smoke that night. Nobody forces me to go to that bar and be around the smoke.

The solution is simple, don't go to businesses that allow smoking. If something like 85% of Americans don't smoke, then it should be very very easy to not be around it. Plus if enough people don't give their business to places that allow smoking, eventually they will follow the market and ban smoking on their own, the way it should be.

This is not about smoking. Everyone needs to look beyond smoking. One day a vice that you enjoy will be infringed upon, and just because the government has done similar things in the past, doesn't make it right.

I do not support smoking at all. But I respect every person freedoms to do a legal activity at a place of private ownership.