# 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")\
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**Author:** ![bics56](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/47e85d/32.png) [@bics56](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bics56)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 1:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/smoking/196054/54 "2008-03-12T13:16:37Z")

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> [@HTML tags](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/html-tags/35400/5):
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> I’m arguing that the government has no right to tell a property owner what he can and cannot allow in his establishment.
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> 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.

interesting…so if I own a bar and a black man walks in I can tell him to get the fuck out b/c of the color of his skin…and not have a worry about breaking any laws?

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