Smoking in a store vs. Wearing a mask in a store

[Yavin4]

The same logic behind the prohibition against smoking a cigarette in a store applies to requiring people to wear a mask in a store.

You can smoke all you want, but you don't have the right to endanger the health of others with your smoke.

You can talk/sing/shout all you want, but you don't have the right to endanger the health of others with your droplets.

To add, if people are upset about wearing a mask in a store, why aren't they just as upset about smoking in a store?

Where am I wrong?

[Thomas Hurt]

1. christofascists and in particular "libertarians" don't believe in the no smoking laws either...

or seat belts, or driver's licenses, or motorcycle helmets, taxes, etc.

[Newest Reality]

2. It seems,

It seems it may not be about the particulars or even making sense out of it like you have done.

Some people are more "It's ALL about ME! ME! ME! ME" than others and they look for any opportunity to exploit that at the expense of others. That may be why Tarrump attracts them as a projection of that and a role model of just how inane and ME, ME, ME you can be. I guess that makes it all okay when Dear Leader encourages them.

We are all selfish. Even the Saint or Bodhisattva gets something from benefiting others. That's being realistic. However, there are those who are willing and able to expand their sense of self to include others; maybe a few or many, and sometimes all.

[Hugin]

3. If I'm not mistaken the prohibition on smoking in stores is to protect merchandise from...

getting contaminated by foul smoke smells and was instituted by management. It was diminishing their bottom line.

I wonder why management hasn't taken a stronger stand on the risk to millions of dollars of merch getting contaminated by possible no mask wearing COVID carriers.

[Yavin4]

4. Good point. Someone without a mask talks over the produce spraying their droplets

then you would have to throw that produce out.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. Some people do get bent out of shape over smoking laws.

I'm the next town over from mine, a Waffle House waitress was shot dead after she told a patron he couldn't smoke in there. The company had recently changed their smoking policy and I guess he wasn't aware or didn't care. That's an extreme example but it was only about 5 years ago. You just never know who you're dealing with anymore.