Comments on: Your Grand Old Party… http://www.jacobgrier.com/blog/archives/770.html Coffee, Cocktails & More Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:29:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Mike http://www.jacobgrier.com/blog/archives/770.html#comment-230741 Mike Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:18:44 +0000 http://www.jacobgrier.com/blog/archives/770.html#comment-230741 Zhubin, while you have a good point that there are likely plenty of restaurant employees who are on the side of a smoking ban, I have to believe there's a better way to address this issue than to further alienate and isolate smokers. I don't see why we can't allow establishments to choose, on an individual basis, whether or not to allow smoking within their premises. Zhubin, while you have a good point that there are likely plenty of restaurant employees who are on the side of a smoking ban, I have to believe there’s a better way to address this issue than to further alienate and isolate smokers. I don’t see why we can’t allow establishments to choose, on an individual basis, whether or not to allow smoking within their premises.

]]> By: Zhubin http://www.jacobgrier.com/blog/archives/770.html#comment-230496 Zhubin Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:56:38 +0000 http://www.jacobgrier.com/blog/archives/770.html#comment-230496 Take the I-speak-for-all-workers beam out of your own eye, dear Jacob! I would guess that the smoking ban proponents actually have more restaurant/bar employees on their side than not, although I have no readily Googable proof to support that. But even if NO restaurant/bar workers supported the ban, that doesn't diminish the worker safety argument. Public safety concerns about me walking into an office and shooting up the place are not alleviated by the fact that the people I'm shooting at knew I was coming, after all. Take the I-speak-for-all-workers beam out of your own eye, dear Jacob!

I would guess that the smoking ban proponents actually have more restaurant/bar employees on their side than not, although I have no readily Googable proof to support that. But even if NO restaurant/bar workers supported the ban, that doesn’t diminish the worker safety argument. Public safety concerns about me walking into an office and shooting up the place are not alleviated by the fact that the people I’m shooting at knew I was coming, after all.

]]> By: Jacob Grier http://www.jacobgrier.com/blog/archives/770.html#comment-230408 Jacob Grier Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:48:43 +0000 http://www.jacobgrier.com/blog/archives/770.html#comment-230408 It's statements like that come out when you try to blog in your brief break between jobs. It’s statements like that come out when you try to blog in your brief break between jobs.

]]> By: Mike http://www.jacobgrier.com/blog/archives/770.html#comment-230197 Mike Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:04:42 +0000 http://www.jacobgrier.com/blog/archives/770.html#comment-230197 "Want to ban smoking? Fine, do it." Okay, who the hell are you and what have you done with Jacob? But yeah, the people who frame this as a worker safety issue ought to be mocked. “Want to ban smoking? Fine, do it.”

Okay, who the hell are you and what have you done with Jacob?

But yeah, the people who frame this as a worker safety issue ought to be mocked.

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