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Smoker's rights

Some of the easiest rights to take away from others in recent history belong to smokers. Smokers are a deionized portion of our population who's rights are stripped from them with no regard for the greater risk to society.

Nevada recently passed a law banning smoking in certain public places, including any place that serves food. The question was on the ballot and the majority voted for it, and so it is now law.

The problem lies in how easy it has become to take someone's rights away. Simply walk into the booth and push the right button. It's easy to do when it's not your rights being removed.

The real question is, how many of those people cast a vote before they reached the voting booth? I cast my vote with my dollars and my opinion. 69% of the population of Nevada are non-smokers. How many of that 69% ever wrote a letter to their favorite restaurant encouraging them to go non smoking? How many of that percentage frequented a non-smoking restaurant across town, then wrote to their favorite restaurant to express why the frequent other establishments? The answer is somewhere near zero.

Why? Because that would have required some amount of effort and time on their part. Punching a card in a voting booth is easy. What most people don't realize is that just as easily as someone else's rights were taken away, it could be your rights tomorrow.

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