by Mark Lieser » Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:39 pm
Daniel:
1. Don't run for Knesset. It will take away whatever respect I have for you.
2. I have to call you on the carpet on the issue of smoking behind closed doors. The science is not on your side there either. There is now a growing body of medical evidence that children who live in apartment buildings in which their particular apartment is smoke free, but others in the building smoke behind closed doors - have a significantly higher incidence of respiratory problems than those who live in houses. The mere presence of residual smoke coming out from behind doors or in ventilation systems is apparently enough to cause medically significant harm
So, even your "closed doors" doesn't keep your toxins far enough away from innocent bystanders. And once again, regardless of how many kitchen workers smoke, they should not have the right to smoke in the presence of non smokers IN THE WORKPLACE. No different than asking someone to work in an asbestos factory.
3. My wife suggested I not use the following, but what the hell: You noted earlier that growing tobacco and making cigarettes is legal, so logically, smoking should be, too. Well, I can legally have sex with my wife. I cannot legally do it in public, or wherever I want. So that argument of yours won't work!
4. I commend your willingness to defer to non smokers. As an aside, one short story: Shortly after moving to Israel - and this was after the no smoking laws were in place, although not as strictly enforced as they are now - my wife and I dined at a rather fancy Jerusalem restaurant. We asked the waiter to ask a man who was smoking to extinguish his cigarette. Upon hearing this request, the smoker came over to our table, lit up a fresh one, blew smoke in our faces, and told us to go back to whatever country we came from.
Mark