Ideas on Liberty - Smoking Bans

Posted on November 15th, 2008 by Chris Robertson in Bureaucrash HQ

City and statewide smoking bans are popping up all across the United States, infringing on small business owners’ property rights and the rights of individuals to engage in certain kinds of behaviors. Bureaucrash has some excellent t-shirts and stickers highlighting that, in fact, “smoking is healthier than fascism”. I think it would be a great way to spread our message and inform small business owners of their private property and economic rights by distributing stickers that bar/restaurant owners could put up in their window. We could also stage interviews with these same small business owners to highlight their feelings on the impact of smoking bans are intrusive state regulations. Any thoughts?

 

-The Freedom Coordinator-

  • While it's a great idea, somehow I just don't see it happening. It would be interesting to try though, maybe get a grassroots effort together.
  • jackiethelibertarian
    Brilliant. I'm forming a student organization at my university and would love to get us involved in this. Keep us updated!
  • Chris
    Please contact me about your student group. I would like to coordinate our efforts with student groups on various colleges.

    *-Chris Robertson-*

    Overlord of Outreach
  • Sheri
    If for no other reason, smoking bans and the denormalization campaign against smokers must be stopped because of this guy's words, "f you force me to see or smell you while you debase yourself with your disgusting habit, that is an act of assault and it will be resisted. Rapists and smokers are people who surrender to their need for personal indulgence, at the expense of others." The ignorance of those who follow this campaign is astounding. The campaign's danger to society and the free world is crystal clear to anyone with a working brain.
  • fra59e
    I will defend to the death your freedom to do anything you like in your own space, at your own expense, where it does not impact others without their consent.

    Light up a cigarette, a joint, whatever. Shoot crack, snort coke. I don't care. Your body is your own. So long as you do it on your own dime and don't expect others to enjoy your being around. Be my guest. Have a ball.

    But in public, if you fart, pick your nose, smoke a cigarette, spit or whatever other way pleases you to get rid of your used-up bodily wastes, keep it out of my sight and smell. I do not volunteer to be your toxic waste dispsal site.

    If you force me to see or smell you while you debase yourself with your disgusting habit, that is an act of assault and it will be resisted. Rapists and smokers are people who surrender to their need for personal indulgence, at the expense of others.
  • Katherine
    You have got to be kidding me. Seeing someone smoking is not an "act of assault". Plus, you are forgetting that small business owners have the right to say what goes on at their place of business. If you don't like smoking establishments, vote with your dollars and don't go there.

    How can you even logically draw a similarity between rapists and smokers? Rapists violently attack someone, using physical force to violate them sexually. Smokers on the street, at worst, cause a temporary unpleasant smell. How the heck can you compare these two activities?
  • Pete
    Or maybe as coasters.

    Smoking bans suck. Before, I had the choice of walking by a bar and not being enveloped in smoke (because they're all smoking outside the bar these days). Now I don't, though I've always had the choice of going to a bar.
  • Joe Camel
    goodluck
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