Posted on 03/19/2009 11:24:02 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds has signed a law banning smoking from nearly all indoor public places, including bars, video lottery casinos and gambling halls.
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There goes business down the tubes.
Well, yeah. SD is exactly over-run with potential customers as it is.
There is no reason in hell why there cannot be one place in a state were adults can be adults — NAZI control freaks.
I can’t wait until I go to Vegas, where hubby can enjoy a cigar with his adult beverage with other like-minded adults.
ISN’T exactly over-run with customers.
Good on South Dakota. The smoking wars are largely over, witness Virginia passing legislation restricting smoking. The only thing left is the wailing and gnashing of teeth from smokers who get their panties in a bunch at the legislative process.
You think that’s bad, some high school kids presented a petition to the St. Paul city council today to have CANDY CIGARETTES banned! Good little fascist-dem trainees.
I lived in SD before retiring from the military.. and never did see a drop in tourism, even when gas prices went up.
Control freak.
I gather I won’t be seeing you in Vegas.
America, where you can marry a fag, but can’t smoke one, at least not in public.
Makes one kinda warm and proud, don’t it.
You are not a conservative if you like this law..
Agreed. Smokers have lost. But, people better keep puffing, the children’s health depends on them.
Now we can move on to booze, food, salt and that biggie, global climate change.
If both liberals and conservatives have agreed on denying smokers their freedom of assembly, there is hope for America.
Then State and Federal lawmakers MUST stop trying to fund programs by raising taxes on smoking. Because the funding has to come from somewhere else when smoking is banned in general.
Rush has said this for years, and I’ll say it again...
KILL A BABY IN THE WOMB — you have that choice — but don’t dare light a tobacco product.
Some — it’s your patriotic duty to fund health care for children.
“Some” = “Smoke.”
My apologies.
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
— G.K. Chesterson
I love the smell of tobacco. It smells like... FREEDOM.
My entertainment dollars don’t go anywhere in the State of Ohio; they go to Vegas.
I’d like to see what is done for enforcement when thousands of bikers light up in the bars.
It’s like the fur is murder moonbats. Try throwing paint on a biker who wears leather for once.
That will be the only time you do.
Once.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
——C. S. Lewis
Could you be anymore smug?
You remind me of classmates in the 6th grade.
That is a textbook troll post.
Amen. It IS TYRANNY.
What a jackass.
Care to join me in Vegas?
You remind me of classmates in the 6th grade.”
Yup, the ones that everyone wiped boogars on!
Smoking threads always bring out the closet liberal.
Hello, BO voter! Welcome to a place where we actually appreciate freedom.
They are coming after caffeine, next. You drink coffee or coke?
I’m proud to be called a jackass by those who pimp death or are addicts.
Ok, but is abortion, needle sharing, teaching children about the art of gay sex and corruption in politics..... still legal?
Reminds me of the guy at the pearly gates. Gabriel asked him if he had ever done something unselfish for his fellow man.
The guy thought for a moment and said, “One time I was driving through South Dakota and I saw a bunch of bikers harassing this pretty young girl in a parking lot. I pulled off the road, got out of the car and told them to leave the poor girl alone.
“They ignored me, so I spotted the meanest looking one in the bunch, walked up to him and ripped out his nose ring, punched him in the gut and kicked over his bike. I then told them that I was NOT going to let them near the poor girl and they needed to just leave!”
“Wow”, said Gabriel. “That took a lot of courage. When did that happen?”
The guy thought for a second and said, “A couple minutes ago.”
Come join hubby and me in Vegas. I’ll buy you a cigar.
Whoa! Hubba, hubba, mama! Now you got me feeling like a teenager, all palpitated and nervous, just like when I was a teenager.
BUT! I’m not getting married in some tacky Vegas chapel.
I want a traditional man2man wedding, the kind we have here in the B(G)ay state.
LOL.
Please don’t join me in Vegas.
Invitation rescinded. :-)
You still driving your car without a helmet? Do you have any idea how dangerous that is?
There aughta be a law. I’ll call my congressman.
Next on the list will be gas and diesel fumes which like smoking, has been associated with cancer.
We need to ban self pumping at all stations. We need to ban all diesel motors causing cancer in our kids from breathing the fumes while riding school buses. Then, and only then can these smoking NAZIS seem credible in banning tobacco smoking in bars and casinos where adults play.
Until then, it’s a do good feel good for control freakin NAZIS.
I suppose you want booze to be banned again??
Now, that there's tag line material!
Thanks, go ahead and use it, I’ve been saying it since it hit me in a lighting flash in April/May 2004 when MA banned smoking in all bars and the Supreme Court authorized gay marriage.
I tell it to everybody I can, most are shocked, some non plussed, some laugh and agree at the absurdity of Modern America. Ironically, some of the ones laughing the loudest have been gays, I guess straights are kinda intimidated to even laugh at such.
Not like it’s untrue.
>>driving your car without a helmet?
Hey, we think alike.
And kneepads and elbow protectors for pedestrian too.
There’s never enough safety in our dangerous world.
Especially in this thread.
“America, where you can marry a fag, but can’t smoke one, at least not in public.”
America, where you can snuff a child in the womb, but can’t take a puff of smoke in public.
Words of a man who is pimping for an ever-larger toleration government and is addicted to using the unlimited powers of Big Government to crush those who choose to live freely.
My relatives were buried under the Ukraine prairies by do-gooders like you. Along with 30,000,000 others, they’ve been long forgotten, but as a descendant, I recognize ruthless killers when I see them.
From a Polish Catholic.
Thanks for the offer. I’ll polity decline. But if we do meet in Vegas I’ll gladly buy you and your hubby a drink. We disagree strongly on smoking. But we have far more in common than we have in difference. I’ll drink to that.
Yesterday on Beck he was taking about a new smart grid Obama has talked about and how the government will be able to control everyone’s energy usage in their homes.
Listen, I can understand that there are some people who do not want to be around smoke. No problem. But your side, on the other hand, has to realize the opposite. There has to be some type of agreement rather than one side controlling the other. I never want to stop anyone from doing anything that is legal.
I just want people to free and happy. These types of laws are making a lot of people unhappy and feeling like they are living in a controlled nanny state.
Here's an example. You don't like gambling? Fine, then don't go into a casino and don't tell me that I can't do that if I wish.
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