DINNERTABLE DEBATE-SMOKING CESSATION-NOT THE TeDDY ROOSEVELT FIRESIDE CHAT WE REMEMBER!?
Hello. Around the dinner table tonight, there was a debate over a supposedly law making it illegal to smoke on the streets, and smoking 16 feet from any doorway, or something similiar. The law is already in effect in Chicago.
Anyway, the debate was whether it was constitutional, and just plain, whose rights are being sacrificed. I personally am a smoker and I am for the law, because it does infringe on peoples’ rights and is highly offensive to smell smoke walking down the street. I am very curteous when I smoke, but unfortunately, I think I lie in a small margin of people who are. Anyway, what do you think. Even if it is not a law that will be going into effect Jan. 1,2008, what if it were? What is your stance on the topic. ENLIGHTEN ME…and hopefully I win the debate. (Kinda cool how you can be so interactive!) I will post the winner of the debate in 2 hours roughtly. Randy-for cessation or Jasper, not for it, and put reasons why!~ TYVM!!!
omg, How embarrassing, it was FDR’s Fireside Chats, guess I got the Roosevelt’s mixed up, hahaha.
December 09 2009 11:46 am | News
December 9th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Smoking on the street is okay under the new law, but not w/in 15 ft of the door or an open window. The new law in Chicago will allow smoking in anyplace that gets 80% or more of it’s revenue from sale of tobacco, but they can’t serve food. If they were in business when the law takes effect, they can be in a building w/ other businesses, if they start their business after, it must be in a single business building.