SMOKING BANS ARE ABOUT RIGHTS, NOT HEALTH
Continually it is being suggested that the issue of prohibiting smoking in and near public buildings is about health, and not about individual rights. But the fact is, the health of non-smokers has never been at risk from secondhand smoke. This is
Posted By nicepoethere on September 11, 2007
What about the freedom to be away from a toxic, bad-smelling cloud of pu...
Posted By Jordan on September 11, 2007
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What about the freedom to be away from a toxic, bad-smelling cloud of putrid smoke?
-- Posted By Jordan on September 11, 2007Yes people who smoke do have the right to smoke on their own terms and in their own places. They do NOT however have the right to inflict their nasty habit on others. That includes smoking pregnant mothers who risk their unborn child's health.
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Patrick P. Stafford is a resident of Grants Pass, Oregon and Los Angeles, California, and works full-time as a journalist, copywriter, editor and poet. Patrick has written for AccessLife.com, Whee...