Washington's Possible Smoking Ban... Bad.

An issue of ownership rights is being taken to the voting booth this year. It looks like there will be an initative to ban smoking in all public places, including bars is going to the ballot.

I am not a smoker and it is fun not to smell like smoke, but at the same time I believe that as a business owner I should be able to say if smoking should be allowed in my place of business. Smoking is a legal activity. While it is such, it should not be illegal to do it if I want.

If a place of business chooses to make it non-smoking, then the owner had his choice and did it as such. If there were enough people who refused to go to places that allowed smoking, the owner would change his mind. But, to take yet another right away from business owners is just not right.

I hope that people, both smokers, and non-smokers will see this issue not as a smoking issue, but as an issue of ownership rights.