{"id":112,"date":"2013-03-28T13:12:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T23:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=112"},"modified":"2013-03-28T13:14:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T23:14:18","slug":"keep-your-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"Keep your rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t care if someone smokes or they don\u2019t.<br \/>\nIf I don\u2019t like it I just don\u2019t go where they are.<\/p>\n<p>So why don\u2019t they allow bars or businesses that clearly tells you it allows smoking.<br \/>\nIf you don\u2019t like it, don\u2019t go there.<\/p>\n<p>And zip up that argument about workers getting second-hand smoke.<br \/>\nThey don\u2019t like it, don\u2019t work there.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses don\u2019t owe anyone a job.<\/p>\n<p>People in our country have the right to drink themselves to death, practice risky sex, and give themselves a heart attack by eating super-sized anything.<\/p>\n<p>So let them smoke in the company of those who also smoke or don\u2019t care \u2013 like most people did 20 years ago.<br \/>\nIf everyone stays away the business closes its doors.<\/p>\n<p>But with 25-percent of this country still popping an occasional cigarette, I doubt many bars or clubs are going to shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody is trampling on your rights when you have plenty of places to go besides a bar where people light up.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t like the food at one restaurant?<br \/>\nDon\u2019t go.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be passing a law that no spicy, hot-rod Mexican food is allowed because a lot of people don\u2019t like it and it might rot your stomach.<\/p>\n<p>Damn near anything we do these days can affect our health or longevity.<br \/>\nSo, don\u2019t to it.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t make others live by your rules.<br \/>\nBecause some of them suck.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-112\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=112&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-112\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=112&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=112&amp;share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t care if someone smokes or they don\u2019t. 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