brief note on city-wide smoke banning

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=225934¤tpage=15#295

i think that banning indoor public area smoking is acceptable while you provide them smoking room for them to smoke with. this is what the japanese government have been doing. but banning it everywhere in the city would obviously be overdoing it as the government would loss tax revenues and that would be completely interfering with personal rights and freedoms base on the basic rule that one's action taken shouldn't be harming the others rights.

also if you make the ban everywhere convenient that would make the cost for breaking the law, i.e. smoking in prohibited places, be the same everywhere. and that would make indoor smoking a little bit worse in the country.