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Smoking issue all about ability to make choices
I am responding to a letter to the editor in the Jan. 24 paper from a man in Illinois. He hopes Iowa will do as Illinois did on the smoking law. He says although he lives in Illinois, he comes to Keokuk to eat out a lot. I am so tired of people complaining about us smokers. They say it stinks. Well, if you know there are smokers in there, you have the choice not to go in.
They say second hand smoke kills; there are so many other things out there that kill, too. But the same people choose to do these things anyway. They take a chance on getting killed in their cars every day. What do they think factory pollution is doing to them? But they still choose to use those products coming from those factories because they have that choice. We all have choices to make. Some of us choose to smoke. We know it's a nasty habit, it stinks and they say it's bad for our health. But it's our choice.
I believe there will come a day when the government will make all our choices, maybe not 10 or even 20 years from now, but some day. That's just way beyond being wrong. Today it's smoking, tomorrow it may be something you choose to do. How will you like it then? So it sounds to me like this man needs to stay in Illinois and leave us Iowans alone. The government will get around to us soon enough. Until then, you make your choices and let me make mine.
Paula Ziles,
Keokuk
They say second hand smoke kills; there are so many other things out there that kill, too. But the same people choose to do these things anyway. They take a chance on getting killed in their cars every day. What do they think factory pollution is doing to them? But they still choose to use those products coming from those factories because they have that choice. We all have choices to make. Some of us choose to smoke. We know it's a nasty habit, it stinks and they say it's bad for our health. But it's our choice.
I believe there will come a day when the government will make all our choices, maybe not 10 or even 20 years from now, but some day. That's just way beyond being wrong. Today it's smoking, tomorrow it may be something you choose to do. How will you like it then? So it sounds to me like this man needs to stay in Illinois and leave us Iowans alone. The government will get around to us soon enough. Until then, you make your choices and let me make mine.
Paula Ziles,
Keokuk
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