Wednesday, June 18, 2003

The idea of a total ban is not ideal. What all businesses need is profit to strive in the business world and equality to all of its consumers.

The truth is people who smoke will not likely eat, drink, or spend their money at a place where they cannot smoke anywhere in the area of where their money is being spent. Especially being that most of the places of business in question are of choice not of need (leisure, recreation, etc.). Most smokers would even travel further, and pay a bit more for their food, entertainment, recreation, etc., to have the choice to have a smoke or not within a permitted area where their friends and family are still enjoying their time together.

The nonsmokers do at least have the choice of smoking sections or nonsmoking sections. So shouldn't the smokers also have equal choices of smoking or not?

At least most smokers are respectful enough to smoke in a designated area which seems to be a fair compromise. What if all smokers asked that the nonsmokers had a designated area to stay in to be in a smoke-free area so the smokers could walk freely around public areas and exercise their rights of being an of-age smoker?

Sadacha Ann

Fairburn, Ga.