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Originally Posted by Elspode
Am I allowed to open a restaurant and allow *only* smokers to come in? I suspect not, somehow. Why, then, am I able to allow *only* nonsmokers in my own private property?
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To open an establishment for *only* smokers - principle was always established. The establishment is a private club - not open to the public.
Once when smokers were forced to be responsible, there were special clubs just for drug addicts. Smoking Clubs. Also these drug addicts did not just throw their drug waste upon the roads and sidewalks. Times changes. Suddenly smokers now routinely throw their waste anywhere they want - because smokers are somehow superior to all others. Smokers can even dispose of burning litter anywhere they want? Yes, smokers are somehow exempt even from litter laws. Again an example of how smokers somehow assume they have superior rights.
There exists private and publically owned establishments. AND there are establishments open to the public and not open to the public (private clubs) - that can be private or public establishments. Obviously, of those four categories, a publically owned facility would not be a private club. The point is not just two categories - public and private. There are four categories.
If that establishment is open to public, then it must not impose body odor of drug addicts to other members of the public. Finally we have decided that smokers are not special people. These drug addicts must conform to public standards. They may not attack others with toxic wastes - their drug habit. Smokers have the same rights as all others - which means they simply need not smoke except where personal permission is obtained from everyone who is in and would be in that room. That is called fair; the principles upon which democracy was recreated.