# smoking **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/smoking/196054 **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic **Created:** [March 11, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/smoking/196054 "2008-03-11T15:48:03Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 52
### Author: ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar) #### Post date: [March 12, 2008, 1:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/smoking/196054/52 "2008-03-12T13:10:33Z")
> [@What kind of car does your girlfriend drive](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-kind-of-car-does-your-girlfriend-drive/35367/82): > > Like I said within reason. It’s not like I don’t see the points made by people against the smoking ban…they are valid, as are the points made by the people who are for it. You can argue it is your right to smoke…but doing it in a place that is open to the public and since it can people’s health at risk then I am more for the ban. I think the point is it is a place open to the public, so anyone should be able to go there with out that risk…but if it was a club or memebers bar then I can see being able to smoke there. I’m arguing that the government has no right to tell a property owner what he can and cannot allow in his establishment. > Edit: I am shocked by such a stupid post coming from you. Look at what you wrote…high HP cars…speeding/reckless driving is against the law, cadles…if you light someone’s house on fire it is against the law, trees falling down is an act of nature…or if your dumb ass cuts one down and it kills someone you go to jail. Smoking…go for it, but if it is in a public place then don’t do it…it is your habit that is putting other people’s health at risk. a bar or restaurant is NOT a public place. It’s a privately owned business. If the owner doesnt like the way you look at him, he can tell you to get the fuck out. I’ll hopefully have an office sometime this summer, or perhaps a storefront. Is the state going to tell me that I can’t smoke a cigarette in my fucking office? Fuck them, and fuck everyone that thinks the government should be legislating against MILD ANNOYANCES. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/smoking/196054)._