A Statewide Texas Smoking Ban Is Coming
This story on KUT this morning was infuriating.
The gawddamn health nazis are pushing for Dallas's ruling class to impose greater restrictions on private property owners. That's bad enough, but they're getting greedy. Apparently, if it passes it will convince them to get a bill to the Texas legislature to impose the same kind of "100% smoke-free ordinance" on all Texans. No exceptions for special ventilated rooms, no exceptions for any enclosed public space, no exceptions for employers.
KUT didn't air anyone with an objection to either plan. *grits teeth*
The typical "local smokers" interviewed were totally cool with the idea. They were fully on board the Ends Justify The Means Train. *cracks teeth*
The only hint of opposition to this shit these days comes from local businesses who're worried about their bottom line.
You know what, you short-sighted pack of morons? You've lost. You sold out the moment you accepted their cost-benefit analysis morality and conceded pragmatism is the way to go. Any dipshit can come up with a study showing your profits will be secure if the state forces you to forbid smoking on your premises. Not only do you lose the argument as they've defined it, you end up being the Cash-Hungry Bad Guy who cares only about money in the face of balding, humorous-against-the-odds cancer patients delicately describing their months left to live and oh those silly carefree days working in smoky bars when we didn't know any better.
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Fucking sickening.