{"id":51,"date":"2008-01-03T13:11:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T17:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2008-01-03T13:11:59","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T17:11:59","slug":"smoking-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/smoking-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;RANT&gt;<br \/>\nI am getting sick of hearing about smoking bans.\u00a0 Now I am not a smoker but I do believe that companies should be able to decide for themselves the smoking allowed in their establishment.\u00a0 I am tired of hearing about how smoking runs up insurance is bad for your health and etc.\u00a0 The government should be limited to creating smoking bans for government owned facilities.\u00a0 CAL is making laws preventing smoking around small children.\u00a0 REALLY!\u00a0 You won&#8217;t stop the stupid from breeding but you stop smokers from smoking in their car with their kids?\u00a0 There are just so many things wrong with this.\u00a0 OK I have to stop and go shopping.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If everyone quits smoking where will the government recover the tax loss?<\/li>\n<li>What about McDonalds and all of the FAT people, they too are unhealthy, they too run up insurance rates.<\/li>\n<li>What about letting people have babies and babies and babies who can&#8217;t afford them and are on the system?\u00a0 That runs up the cost of medical procedures, therefore running up the cost of insurance.\u00a0 Not to mention they cost the working people more in taxes.<\/li>\n<li>What about 800 other things that need to be fixed?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&lt;\/RANT&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;RANT&gt; I am getting sick of hearing about smoking bans. Now I am not a smoker but I do believe that companies should be able to decide for themselves the smoking allowed in their establishment. I am tired of hearing about how smoking runs up insurance is bad for your health and etc. The government should be limited to creating smoking bans for government owned facilities. CAL is making laws preventing smoking around small children. REALLY! You won&#8217;t stop the stupid from breeding but you stop smokers from smoking in their car with their kids? There are just so many things wrong with this. OK I have to stop and <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/smoking-ban\/\">Smoking Ban<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}