Smoking ban discriminates
By Robert P. Kaldunski | Winona

Being a reformed smoker, it is nice to go to places and not see smokers. But, this is discrimination of the worst type.

I don’t smoke by choice. The smokers smoke by their choice. If I chose to enter a place where there are smokers, that is my choice, no one told me that I wasn’t allowed in. No one told the smokers that they weren’t allowed to blow smoke in my face. I could ask them not to and for the most part they would be courteous enough to not do so.
I feel that the Legislature has entered into a cause of discrimination that is totally wrong. The Constitution states that all people have the right of a pursuit of happiness, also the right of choice. They have the right to be happy while smoking and the choice of where to do this within reason, and the same applies to my choice to go into a place where smoking is allowed. Why do we need laws which are discriminatory toward a particular set of people?

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