ciphergoth comments on Disclosure vs. Bans: Reply to Robin Hanson - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Technologos 11 January 2010 06:52:14AM 4 points [-]

For what it's worth, the argument I'd heard--not that I agree with it, to be clear--was that visitors/patrons weren't the issue: the law was designed to essentially extend safe-work-environment laws to bars. Thus, it was the employees who were the at-risk party.

Comment author: ciphergoth 11 January 2010 09:44:57AM *  1 point [-]

I wish that the law had been written in line with other hazardous materials laws. Then there would be (very expensive) smoking bars in which the staff wore full-on hazmat suits at any time that they might be exposed to the hazardous smoke, and so forth.

EDIT: to be clear, I mean this seriously, not as a joke about smoking laws.