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Re: Puerto Rican new Smoking Law

Author: Doug (---.aurorasys.com)
Date: 03-23-07 15:37

"do we really need to have a law to force the issue"

Not if someone can come up with an effective alternative. What do you suggest?

You, yourself, say that some smokers are rude. I find many to be rude, especially in bars. When I smoked, I NEVER lit up when anyone near me was eating. It happens all the time, these days.

Are you suggesting that in order to get back to the good old days we should just handle things ourselves? Kick some butt if they are blowing smoke into my breathing space? Not a very viable policy. But I deserve clean air to breathe nonetheless.

Frankly as someone whose mother, father and brother are all cancer fatalities, I hope the inconvenience helps people decide to kick and spare their loved ones what I went through when they slowly suffocated.

Bar owners are very status quo-ish. Many fear failure if they lose their smoking clientele. I think there is a new customer (me) who previously stayed out of smoky bars for every hard-core nicotine addict who leaves. The only way they bar owners will believe this is to see it work. This law gives them that chance.

Doug

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