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Originally Posted by Radar
All of the laws against smoking in public are also ridiculous. There has not been a single speck of evidence to suggest that second hand smoke (especially outdoors) has caused a single case of cancer in the entire history of the world.
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Frankly, I'm not worried about my health from second hand smoke. I can't stand the stench which clings to my clothes. I want to be able to go out and have a drink at a bar and come home and not need to have my jacket dry cleaned.
Your right to swing your fist or smoke in a public place ends at the tip of my nose. To expect me to approach every smoker in a bar and get them to pony up their share of my dry cleaning bill is ludicrous and impractical. I don't oppose smoking sections or smoking bars.
For what it's worth I also object to over perfumed and cologned people, and especially to stinky magazines, i.e. the ones with perfume samples. They really hurt my nose, it is like someone shining an extremely bright light in my eyes, it is physically painful.
Would a libertarian society have any laws, and if so, how would it be decided what they were?