Smoking-plank-Ogden

=Bill Ogden's position:=
* Smoking is a hot issue.
==Insights==
:Source, from an email on the PA Clean Sweep list from Bill Ogden
* I own a gym...quite honestly...IF I wanted to have a "Smokers Only Gym"...that should also be my 'Right".
* I've had discussions like this before...certain gym members don't quite get it...they say, "I don't know if I can go along with that". I say, "So what". That quite frankly isn't the issue. The issue is...the consumer can CHOOSE whether or not he/she wishes to use SUCH a facility...period.
* In todays society...people seem to get on a band-wagon and try to set government mandates on anyone that upsets their life-style.
* There are plenty of gyms to go around...find one that suits you.
* There are "Free-Weight Only" gyms-(Believe it or not). What's next? People suing the gym owner because the free weight only gym doesn't have a treadmill for whoever?
* At the local Kings restaraunt...I walk through the "Diner smoking allowed area" to get to the smoke free area...then there is a dining room smoking area in the very back...does this make sense if you are a non-smoker?
* Bottom line...non-smokers can recommend alternatives to the manager...but not mandate his/her rules.
: There are thousands of places to eat.
* Same goes if an establishment doesn't want to have any smoking areas at all except outside...again...that should be the OWNERS CHOICE.
==Links==
* Bill Ogden
* Smoking
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