Pop23
Gold Member
I'm not saying make it a REQUIREMENT to smoke, just that they would allow it.
If I want to start a business, say, a comic book shop, in my neighborhood, but I want people to feel free to smoke while they are shopping, why not? People that don't like it can go elsewhere... why is this a problem?
Because smoking cannot exist in a vacuum. Literally.
In other words it is impossible for one person in a roomful of people to be smoking. If one person lights up, everybody in the area is smoking. Whether they want to or not. And that's the issue. It always has been.
If one person in the same roomful of people is drinking --- that doesn't happen.
If I clearly state that smoking is allowed in my bar you don't have to drink there if you will be bothered by the smoke do you??
Nope. I don't do bars anyway so I don't care.
But that wasn't the point. The point is that if a given person DOES walk in and somebody is smoking -- then that newcomer is smoking too. There's no way around that.
If the person walks into the store that has a sign on it that says " smoking is allowed " they are making a choice.