Muscatine

I do have a question......public housing?  Maybe be can all quit our jobs, stay home, watch t.v., collect a check every month     AND    SMOKE WHEN WE WANT!

People who say that democrats are for more government controls need to rethink something. It's the republicans that keep pushing for the ability for the government to spy on you, not the democrats. This won't turn into 1984 unless they get their way. Government gets controlling when it has the ability to know or do anything anytime and spy on people like republicans keep suggesting.

Democrats are doing things based on scientific consensus, the kind of stuff you could go out and verify if you want. (Yes, you can. Set 10 people in a room, have 5 of them smoke, and 5 of them not. Do this an hour a day for a year. See if the 5 non-smokers are as healthy as another 5 people who were put in a room without smokers.)

One could even argue democrats were protecting your rights here. They were protecting your right to breathe clean air. That's more important than some people's addiction to nicotine.

The way I see it, why does something some people enjoy have to be taken away from them to protect those who could just as easily go to places where smoking is not allowed? That, my fellow, is being selfish and overly restrictive.

Can someone please point me to the specific legal directive/la/document/court ruling that gives a person, any person, the "RIGHT" to smoke?  All of our rights are either specified or implied through the legal process.  While we do have the "RIGHT" to breathe clean air under the legislation that guides the EPA, I just can't seem to find where this "RIGHT" for anyone to smoke might be.  It seems to me if people are going to continue sqwaking about some psuedo "RIGHT" they think they have, they should certianly be able to identify the source of that "RIGHT."