Illegal For Restaurants To Serve Obese Patrons?

[Alycin]

[quote name='Mercy me' post='1458629' date='Feb 10 2008, 03:23 PM']What I am saying is that no one is forcing anyone to go places where people are smoking. If you have a problem with people smoking then stay away from it. That is a personal decision. Don't inflict laws that discriminate against people who are doing something perfectly legal just because you and some others have a problem with it. You have a choice don't smoke and go places that don't have smokers. If there is a demand then business will fill it.[/quote]

Why should the large majority of people who DON'T smoke have to avoid public places because smokers are allowed there? That makes no sense. Have you ever tried to walk into a mall when 20 people were out front smoking? As a child I dreaded that 30 seconds or so where I had to try to hold my breath or ended up coughing my lungs up.

Or how about going into a gas station to pay for your gas, when you realize only after you set foot in the door, that smoking is allowed in there?

You HAVE to pay for your gas. You can't choose to leave without paying.... and you end up not only having to inhale 2nd hand smoke for any number of minutes (depending on the line, obviously) but you also walk out smelling like an ashtray.



And I'm a former smoker.

Edited February 10, 2008 by Alycin

[ardillacid]

[quote name='Mercy me' post='1458600' date='Feb 10 2008, 02:29 PM']Let us look at the real statistics here. 60% of the people who die of lung cancer were not smokers. Check it out. The second hand smoking thing turned out not to hold water and yet all these laws were created in the name of "the public health." Now instead of discriminating against smokers we are discriminating against people who are heavy and people are getting upset? Why? It is the same concept.[/quote]
So we now jump to the conclusion that tobacco smoke is the only cause of lung cancer?


lol

[Mercy me]

I know what needs to happen with obesity, get rid of desk jobs. Mine is killing me. I am not by any definition obese but I have to watch what I eat now because I don't get the exercise that I need to burn off the calories that I eat.

I do think that for those people at least in this country, where most of the cities were developed after the advent of the automobile have a real issue because we often can't realistically walk places and many jobs have become sedentary.

[Alycin]

[quote name='Mercy me' post='1458645' date='Feb 10 2008, 03:49 PM']I know what needs to happen with obesity, get rid of desk jobs. Mine is killing me. I am not by any definition obese but I have to watch what I eat now because I don't get the exercise that I need to burn off the calories that I eat.[/quote]

Watching what you eat is a good idea regardless of your weight. Junk food is called JUNK food for multiple reasons, not just because it is more likely to make you fat.


[quote]I do think that for those people at least in this country, where most of the cities were developed after the advent of the automobile have a real issue because we often can't realistically walk places and many jobs have become sedentary.[/quote]

I agree. I have a desk job. I would much rather have a job where I was moving around a bit more but hey... whatcha gonna do. Desk jobs are important.

I also could TECHNICALLY walk to work but it's 7 miles away from my house. That would add some time to my day.

[Mercy me]

I know, if I had to walk to work it would be walking a marathon everyday and I live relatively close to my office compared to others. I am grateful for my job and do like it.

I must admit that I like those salads that they are serving at Wendy's and Arby's.

[Paddington]

Body Mass Index is funny. I once was considered obese just because I had been lifting weights. (I wasn't obese.)

[MIKolbe]

[quote name='cmotherofpirl' post='1455318' date='Feb 4 2008, 08:51 AM']Who gets to define obese?[/quote]
If it's the same people who define torture, everyone should be able to eat, no problem.

[T-Bone _]

[quote name='Mercy me' post='1458669' date='Feb 10 2008, 02:11 PM']I know, if I had to walk to work it would be walking a marathon everyday and I live relatively close to my office compared to others. I am grateful for my job and do like it.

I must admit that I like those salads that they are serving at Wendy's and Arby's.[/quote]

I order my salads like this:

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