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Nevertheless, I only see one issue here[1]: property rights. As long as smoking is legal[2], the only person to decide whether or not you should be allowed to smoke on a piece of property is the owner of the property. But woe to those who try to explain this to the non-smokers of Dallas!
[1] With such a wonderfully enlightened mind one might expect that you could see there are a myriad of issues tangential and coincident with property rights and that such rights are not so simple, or black and white.
[2] The obvious and simple thing here is that the passing of a law is an attempt to change the legality of smoking in such a way that it is constrained by location. Such constraints exist in many ways in our legal systems in relation to many activities, so there are reams of precedent for them. Example: We (supposedly) have freedom of speech and it is legal to yell "Fire!", just not in a crowded theatre.
You might want to step back from the top of the mount you placed yourself on and re-evaluate your enlightenment.
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Re:Funny (Score:2)
Guilty as charged; I stand corrected, and I thank you.
My big gripe is that I understand why other people are guided by those other issues, but they refuse to listen when I try to say there's more involved.
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers