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did you get your smoking too close to ______ ticket /warning yet?

in Seattle
I got the warning.
yesterday… early evening
Market Street in Ballard

Uhh, no. I don’t smoke, and I don’t live in Seattle.

However, best of luck to you dude. I do feel that it is an infringement of rights to give people a ticket when they are outside smoking, and not around other people. This will surely lead to a slew of lawsuits as these kinds of laws get challenged in the courts. I’m for individual liberty and for the rights of all. There has to be a way to strike a balance on protecting peoples rights. This seems like just another money grab by the government from smokers, who already pay out of the nose in taxes (no pun intended), so I do empathize somewhat. This debate on taxes inevitably leads to the question from people “who should pay for their treatments for cancer, emphyzima, etc”. I would retort, “Who pays for the medical treatment for the people who are obese, have clogged arteries, etc. and need triple bypasses because they lived an unhealthy lifestyle with abuses of food, alcohol, lack of exercise, stress, or other?”. The answer lies in education and a moral upbringing, not in more government legislation and control by “Big Brother”, who “knows what’s best for you”.

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