Comments on: Decatur Sidewalk Table Smoking Ban To Take Effect Next Year

By: joe

joe — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:52:55 +0000

Don’t tease me!

By: brianc

brianc — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:49:02 +0000

Children are only sometimes annoying; smoking is always disgusting, noxious, and irritating–it has no redeeming qualities whatsoever… even farting serves a bodily function.

By: brianc

brianc — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:42:16 +0000

“The bottom line is that if you hand me the $2 billion+ the anti-smoking prohibitionists have been given to them,”

Just trying to catch up to the billions tobacco companies spent to get people addicted to nicotine, a drug that is proven to be more addictive than almost any other.

By: nelliebelle1197

nelliebelle1197 — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:29:41 +0000

Have you ever talked to a four year old? Fart doesn’t need a lobby or advertising.

By: nelliebelle1197

nelliebelle1197 — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:15:52 +0000

When it comes to health, I tend to trust the surgeon general over a federal judge. And I was exposed to huge amounts of second hand smoke as a child and have suffered throughout my life with severe asthma. So my anecdote cancels out yours.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:58:00 +0000

Children have a larger tenancy to carry and transmit disease. Disease kills.

Children may exist to continue the race, but there’s no requirement they be in restaurants. Ban them immediately.

The bottom line is that if you hand me the $2 billion+ the anti-smoking prohibitionists have been given to them, I can make anything “scary” and have it banned.

By: David Harris

David Harris — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:32:24 +0000

As annoying as children can be in restaurants, children exist to continue the human race. Smoking does not.

With that said, parents of slightly disruptive kids should warn/discipline them and parents of highly disruptive kids should remove them. We do much of the former and have even done a little of the latter with our munchkins.

Social etiquette above selfishness.

By: David Harris

David Harris — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:28:56 +0000

That was tongue in cheek, BTW.

i.e.- Just because it hasn’t or doesn’t directly affect you doesn’t mean it’s poor of good public policy.