Submitted by RavenSmokes1987 (not verified) on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 8:15pm.
I think that any OWNER of any place should be able to do what they want as long as they provide a seperate "smoke-free" area that the non-smokers dont have to walk through the smoking section to get to. Put the non smoking section in front, the smoking section in back...put a sign on your door saying WE HAVE A SMOKING SECTION and leave it at that. If you like the food and the place, stay...if not choose another place. There are different sides of the fence on everything but I believe at some point everyone wants to be happy and I think my solution here would help both sides be happy. Its a free country. everyone should have their own rights and if you pay for something and pay the taxes then you should have the right to choose if you want to have a smoking section or not. I think that it should be in two different areas, well defined and not having stupid fans blowing it this way and that. Sometimes I do enjoy not sitting in a smoking section but I am a smoker, I smoke a pack a day. I have asthma, I have clear lungs believe it or not, as well as my dad he is about to be 48. He smokes and has been smoking 2 packs a day since he was a teenager his lungs are fine. For the sake of pregnant women, elderly and for children...have a smoking and a non smoking section but LEAVE OUR COUNTRY FREE! Let people make the choice and give them strict regulations if they are gonna have a smoking section. Thats all there has to be, You dont have to ban it altogether. Telling people what to do or what not to do is what causes problems. Especially in this country. My husband and many friends fight or have fought for our freedom to do certain things and taking that away from people...is like a kick in the face for the people who risk their lives for this country and for the people who see their loved ones die in war fighting for this country. Also...NC IS A TOBACCO STATE. We grow it, we roll it and we sell it here...deal with it or get out...tobacco is our jobs! We dont have many, if you dont like all the smoke then remove yourself from the smoke ridden state and let someone who loves it here have a chance at your job.
Smoking Ban
I think that any OWNER of any place should be able to do what they want as long as they provide a seperate "smoke-free" area that the non-smokers dont have to walk through the smoking section to get to. Put the non smoking section in front, the smoking section in back...put a sign on your door saying WE HAVE A SMOKING SECTION and leave it at that. If you like the food and the place, stay...if not choose another place. There are different sides of the fence on everything but I believe at some point everyone wants to be happy and I think my solution here would help both sides be happy. Its a free country. everyone should have their own rights and if you pay for something and pay the taxes then you should have the right to choose if you want to have a smoking section or not. I think that it should be in two different areas, well defined and not having stupid fans blowing it this way and that. Sometimes I do enjoy not sitting in a smoking section but I am a smoker, I smoke a pack a day. I have asthma, I have clear lungs believe it or not, as well as my dad he is about to be 48. He smokes and has been smoking 2 packs a day since he was a teenager his lungs are fine. For the sake of pregnant women, elderly and for children...have a smoking and a non smoking section but LEAVE OUR COUNTRY FREE! Let people make the choice and give them strict regulations if they are gonna have a smoking section. Thats all there has to be, You dont have to ban it altogether. Telling people what to do or what not to do is what causes problems. Especially in this country. My husband and many friends fight or have fought for our freedom to do certain things and taking that away from people...is like a kick in the face for the people who risk their lives for this country and for the people who see their loved ones die in war fighting for this country. Also...NC IS A TOBACCO STATE. We grow it, we roll it and we sell it here...deal with it or get out...tobacco is our jobs! We dont have many, if you dont like all the smoke then remove yourself from the smoke ridden state and let someone who loves it here have a chance at your job.