Capitol Hill Blue Forums Political Issues Constitutional Issues Smoking in Public and Whose Rights are they?

I have yet to read of anyone here claiming that smokers have a right to smoke anywhere they want, Phil. The focus has been on people being granted the privilege of smoking in or on someone else's property -- a bar for example. It has been about the property owner deciding if smoking will be allowed by others on his property as a part of his property rights -- not the government.

You bring up "public accommodation" which is nothing more than a subversive artifice used to infringe on another's property Rights by a non-owner or a group of non-owners who are powerful or influential enough to have politicians help them take partial control of another's property.

You do not have a right to be free of tobacco smoke on another person's property. You do have the right to leave, or not enter, or go where an owner does not allow smoking.

The bottom line is you and others who demand that property owners Rights should be curtailed to please you, base your demand on nothing less than the morally reprehensible
principle of "Might makes Right". As usual, it is about being able to control or push others around.
Yours,
Issodhos