Quarantines may be justified

[Harmon Seaver]

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 11:47:49AM -0400, Sunder wrote:
> 
> Point is that street, and that air is not your property, it's shared
> property - and hence not subject to your whims, likes and distates, but
> upto the community to decide its usage.  If a large enough population who
> uses said street wishes to smoke there, then the whims of a small minority
> of who are offended by second hand smoke should not force the rules to
> be changed.
> 

   You've got it exactly backwards -- it's only a small (and decreasing as
well) portion of the population that smokes, and it's the majority who don't
want to breath the second-hand smoke. That's why the mayor of NYC is able to get
away with banning smoking in bars and restaurants. 
   Get over it -- public smoking is going to be banned everywhere, plenty of
cities have already banned it in restaurants, public buildings, etc. It's only a
matter of time before it's also banned on the street, and there are already
proposed laws being considered to do just that.



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Harmon Seaver	
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