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Texcellent 0 points ago +0 / -0

Yes, it's exactly like a store banning legal guns or gang members forcing people to NOT walk down it. Banning smoking is just like those things.

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SecondProtectsFirst 1 point ago +1 / -0

Unless smoking has a negative effect on people who aren’t the smoker. Then you don’t have the right to make people inhale that shit just to go about their life.

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Texcellent 1 point ago +1 / -0

Right, but that hasn't been proven and there's no force involved. You don't get to control others and put a restraining order on them for your preferences, that isn't how freedom works.

Do you now restrict eating candy in public places because it's dangerous to put the thought of candy into the minds of diabetics? The entire line of reasoning there is completely ridiculous.

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SecondProtectsFirst 1 point ago +1 / -0

Oh so if I don’t want to smell or breathe the smoke I can just go shop somewhere else right?

Kinda like if I don’t wanna wear a mask I can go shop somewhere else right?

But what happens when I can’t go shop somewhere else because every place makes you smell smoke or every place makes you wear a mask?

If I don’t want to live in San Francisco because everyone is allowed to shit all over the streets, where can I go if every city allows everyone to shit all over the street? Isn’t being able to take a shit on the street an example of having more freedom?