It seems that by a large margin, England will be protecting the worker's rights from second hand smoke. This is something that popping up all over the world, one state after another, or even one country after another.
Just yesterday I testified in my state at the state legislature to protect the rights of workers. It's not fair that every other workplace is smokefree, while I had to get smoke blown in my face every night as I worked behind the bar and careless smokers would exhale directly in my face.
Recently I went to New York, where I stopped by a bar and it was strange to me that there was no one smoking there, then it hit me, that NY had gone smokefree, and it was lovely.
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Don't take this as a personal attack against smokers, but as a personal freedom. You may have the "right" to smoke and harm yourself, but your "right" ends when it hurts others. This is not a law to outlaw smoking, it is a law to protect workers rights. It is a law to protect people's health, especially at restaurants. You see health issues being brought up to keep rats, cockroaches and other dirty things away from food and the atmosphere, and keeping 60 known carcinogens out of the air, is to protect the people. I know that there are AGS'ers here that smoke, and I am not attacking them at all, and I hope that you understand that.
I do hope my state passes this law. I testified last year, which obviously the law did not pass then. The proponents and opponents went on for over 3 hours with over 100 people, where as the other bills up for vote that day only had between 6-15. Clearly a hot-topic.
Just yesterday I testified in my state at the state legislature to protect the rights of workers. It's not fair that every other workplace is smokefree, while I had to get smoke blown in my face every night as I worked behind the bar and careless smokers would exhale directly in my face.
Recently I went to New York, where I stopped by a bar and it was strange to me that there was no one smoking there, then it hit me, that NY had gone smokefree, and it was lovely.
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Don't take this as a personal attack against smokers, but as a personal freedom. You may have the "right" to smoke and harm yourself, but your "right" ends when it hurts others. This is not a law to outlaw smoking, it is a law to protect workers rights. It is a law to protect people's health, especially at restaurants. You see health issues being brought up to keep rats, cockroaches and other dirty things away from food and the atmosphere, and keeping 60 known carcinogens out of the air, is to protect the people. I know that there are AGS'ers here that smoke, and I am not attacking them at all, and I hope that you understand that.
I do hope my state passes this law. I testified last year, which obviously the law did not pass then. The proponents and opponents went on for over 3 hours with over 100 people, where as the other bills up for vote that day only had between 6-15. Clearly a hot-topic.
Alright, so I didn't say that, but I am planning my revenge.
