Can’t find that part of it either.
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You have to be critically conscious and feel it.
Many smoking bans have gone a bit too far. Outdoors and separate areas should be sufficient.
I do find the move by the reps to be a swing too far the other way.
This is the kind of little thing that is a big deal to a lot of people. This won’t be a popular move.
Anyone know if McCarthy smokes?
Is there a list of Congressional smokers?
Smoking and respirator viruses are a VERY bad combination.
Actually, the government can protect citizens from the thoughtless acts of OTHERS.
I don’t smoke.
I ■■■■■■■ hate smoking.
Best day of my life when several States went on anti-smoking rampages.
I can go into my own work, other businesses, restaurants, hotels, etc., without being exposed to carcinogenic second hand cigarette smoke or the nasty remnants of a heavily smoking area.
They are not protecting me from MYSELF.
They are protecting me from the thoughtless and dangerous acts of OTHERS.
The Constitution grants Congress EXCLUSIVE and COMPLETE legislative control of all government facilities, so no enumerated power issues when it comes to banning smoking in Federal facilities.
I DEMAND, not request, DEMAND, that the Capitol and Congressional Offices be made smoke free. We the People, when we just visit the Capitol or when we go their to lobby our Senators and Representatives, have the right to a smoke free environment in a building that is owned by We the People.
If a Senator or Representative needs to smoke that badly, he can take his lame ass outside in the rain or 20 degree weather (like all the Joe Camels of the world) and smoke.
Yeah, I figured this was a peeve of yours, given how hot you came in.
Except it is entirely possible for both to happen, there could be a well ventilated and separated room where he could smoke and no constituents or anyone else would be exposed to anything. Like when Delaware made hospitals shut down entirely separate and contained smoking areas where nobody but smokers ever had any reason to enter. Totally separate enclosures. Nothing but pure hatred and spite drove that policy.
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Why should hospitals or other businesses have to pay for special filtration etc.
I doubt any businesses have lost good employees or had their business impacted by smoking bans in the workplace.
When they banned smoking in pubs in England they said it was the end of the pub yet here we are years later and pubs are still ten a penny in England
I quit smoking 45 years ago. I started sneaking my father’s Lucky Strikes when I was 13. He caught me and made me eat a cigarette. When I quit at around age 26 I think a pack of Marlboros was less than $0.50?
Everyone I ever knew that smoked cigs into their 50s & 60s had/has respiratory problems or died from lung cancer. My father quit in his mid 40s, he died at 51 from stomach cancer.
Between the cost of cigs and the health risks? You gotta be out of your ■■■■■■■ mind to smoke cigarettes.
These Congress members need to reassess this decision.
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I quit over a decade ago myself. Yes, smoking is a bad idea, no, that doesn’t mean they should be punished by being made to go outdoors if there are other ways of accommodating them. In addition, some hospitals in the UK are bringing back smoking rooms because its a safety issue. Too many people try to get away with it and cause fire risks.
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39 years (tobacco) smoke free here (perhaps not oddly about as long as I’ve been married).
This is a stupid decision by the House.
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I fail to see how your smoking status is relevant. If they can be accommodated without inflicting smoke on other people, why not?
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I seriously doubt that it would be possible (or if possible, practical) to establish smoking areas in the Capitol. The older parts of the building are 200+ years old and the Senate and House wings are about 160 years old.
It would probably be possible to establish smoking areas in the Congressional office buildings.
Except no one has suggested doing that. And I’m guessing any “solution” would probably be about as effective as smoking sections in planes were.
Where’s that at?
Smokers are poxxers. A plague.
Seriously? You think modern engineering can’t handle smoke? In any case, the cases I was talking about were about entirely separate structures that shared zero air handling infrastructure. Basically separate huts on hospital grounds, just heat and shelter for the evil smokers. I see no reason that should be prohibited by law aside from hatred and bigotry.
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Nonsense, smoking isn’t contagious. They are tobacco’s anti advertisers. And drinkers, donut eaters and boozers have zero moral high ground against them.
Only two categories you are still allowed to hate, white cis men and smokers.
Have some damn pity, smokers pay amply for their sins without your help. Same applies to fat people.
edit to add not a smoker or fat. white cis yes
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Yabbut, we’re talking about Congressional spaces, not hospitals. Focus.
