Gee ... Sounds like you better be for non smokers rights in this town ... because lynching cannot be far behind.

"As a business owner, I feel I should have the right to cater to smokers or nonsmokers," she said. "I should be able to make the choice because I pay the bills here."

Nancy Vodvarka, owner of the W.T. Smithers Restaurant and Tavern in Dover, Del., said she has dozens of objections to a law passed in June that will ban smoking in all public buildings, including restaurants and bars, in the state. The law goes into effect Nov. 27.

Audrey Silk of New York City's Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment denounces the laws, which are spreading nationwide. "This is nothing but coercion between the outer counties and New York City to leave no place left for smokers to go," she said.

Did they mention the enormous cost HIV, AIDs costs the taxpayers? Behavior such as smoking does cost in the long run and that is a fact but how about the "by choice" dirty needle crowd and the right to have unprotected sex costing all taxpayers a fortune? They get tough on the smokers and allow other behaviors resulting in high medical costs to be acceptable? Am I missing something here?

Nice to know the author thinks it's OK to "beat smokers into submission."

I hope some loudmouth trys it with me.
:O)

Oh sure. Smoking weed, crack, drive by shootings, Spousal abuse, abortion, drinking and driving and ending up in a twisted piece of metal is fine. JUST DON'T SMOKE.

Crazy, isn't it?

I hope some loudmouth trys it with me.

And with ME!! They wouldn't stand a chance against Bubba either. heh!

"The laws also have emboldened nonsmokers so that many now openly castigate smokers who light up in their vicinity, residents said."

""Every now and then you see someone puffing away, but it doesn't last long," said K.N. Henry, a housing official at U.C. Berkeley. "People are like, 'Hey! Put that out!'"

(Over my dead cold body!!!!!)

"The laws also have emboldened nonsmokers so that many now openly castigate smokers who light up in their vicinity, residents said."

Yeah. Happened to me outdoors on the last day I was in the U.S. Definitely, I don't want to go back to California.

Not all of California is alike. I cannot count the number of bars I, or relatives here, have seen in Southern California that openly flout the law. Ashtrays everywhere. Some even sell ciggies from behind the bar. Cigar clubs are bigger than ever -- I've gone to one in Whittier. Civil disobedience is not dead.

On the end of his nose.

That's nice to hear. ;-D

In California, revenues in the state's $40 billion-a-year restaurant industry have grown on average 3 percent annually since the law's passage, according to Mark Martin of the California Restaurant Association in Sacramento. Nationwide, restaurant growth was about 6 percent, he said.

I wonder why Cali's revenues have been about HALF of what the national average is.
I'd be willing to bet that the smoking ban had SOMETHING to do with it.

Thanl Gray Stalin and his Caliban.

Try asking them if they're pro choice before you light up, :-)

truth.org got hacked.

I would not suggest going to it, especially if you are at work.

someone took it over and set it up to take posts.

http://www.truth.org/