As usual, the moonbats don't get it. Either you follow their totalitarian, nanny-state, post-freedom plans or it's "anarchy". Thank God these pu55ie5 weren't around to condemn the Mayflower as "unsafe".
You forgot the wonderful free market enterprise of slavery, too. And arms sales. Doesn't it give you the warm fuzzies to think that your craziest neighbour would be able to buy biological weapons in a free market, because the market demanded they be available, Harris Mint? Let's stop talking lunacy now; the "Free Market" is a nightmare scenario, not the saviour of anything. The right balance of federalism and free enterprise is where we'll find the right scenario.
You're right, Harris Mini - in a real free market, business owners would have the right to make their places heroin-using, prostitution-peddling child-molesting and terrorist-bomb-building friendly, and the free market would decide who stays and who goes...
In a free nation, people would be free to enjoy services without being poisoned and inundated with carcinogens. Real-life examples have shown that going smoke-free doesn't hurt businesses. Freedom means freedom from the things that would harm us as well. Why should I have to fear for my health, just by entering a place of business? The arguments against going smoke-free are ludicrous and selfish. Why, again, are we catering to the addicts, and letting the regular citizens suffer?
In a real free market, business owners would have the right to make their places smoking or non-smoking and the free market would decide who stays and who goes.. These nanny-state wackjobs have no place in a free society. Fk em.
Considering that public smoking bans have been in place here for many years, and only one bar went under (mainly due to it struggling already before the ban) in the entire city, these doomsayers that are saying that a smoking ban will kill the bars are just blowing smoke. Bars adapt. They put in patios and sealed smoking sections.
