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It'll be up to patrons, bars to ban smoking - (Houston) will not beef up... enforcement
Houston Chronicle ^ | Aug. 14, 2007, 3:49PM | By ALEXIS GRANT

Posted on 08/14/2007 10:12:50 PM PDT by weegee

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1 posted on 08/14/2007 10:12:53 PM PDT by weegee
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To: 1riot1ranger; Action-America; Aggie Mama; Alkhin; Allegra; American72; antivenom; Antoninus II; ...

Houston PING

Maybe this will become a safe harbor city for smokers in public. < /sarcasm >


2 posted on 08/14/2007 10:14:17 PM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: weegee
"It also allows smoking on outdoor patios."

How generous.
3 posted on 08/14/2007 10:16:29 PM PDT by Texas_Jarhead
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To: weegee

I guess no one cares any more about “Slime in the Ice Machine” LOL


4 posted on 08/14/2007 10:19:03 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: 1066AD

Marvin Zindler just died. And despite his decades of covering the rat and roach report, there were always health code violations to report every week.


5 posted on 08/14/2007 10:21:11 PM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: Texas_Jarhead
"It also allows smoking on outdoor patios."

Ahhh, I have such memories of a certain outdoor patio in a downtown Houston bar. Having a few beers, smoking and joking.... watching rats as big as possums scurry up the alley.

6 posted on 08/14/2007 10:23:15 PM PDT by DeFault User
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To: Texas_Jarhead

What I like is the BS they used to sell this agenda. “It’ll make Houston a ‘world class city’.”

Then they gave an exemption to our convention center and other out of towner conference locations because they didn’t want to lose convention business.

Seems to be a world class city you DO need to permit smoking.


7 posted on 08/14/2007 10:23:20 PM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: weegee

A good way to shut down bars.

It is so stupid too because most people who go to bars are smokers and people who don’t go to bars don’t start going when there are smoke-free bars or when cities run by Stalinists impose smoking bans.

So next will be a loss of taxes in the city of Houston, followed by stupid things to increase taxes without calling them tax increases.

Liberals are so freaking stupid, if we could just isolate all of them to one section of the country, they’d starve to death inside of six months. You could just do a Stalinist relocation thing, which they would go for, being Stalinists and then, boingo! Hoist on their own petards! And loving every second of it.


8 posted on 08/14/2007 10:25:56 PM PDT by Duke Nukum (...till pity is become a trade, and generosity a science that makes men rich...)
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To: Duke Nukum

The proponents got the support of bar owners in the original smoking ban by assuring them that bars would be exempted.

Incrementalism is the way they accomplish their agenda.


9 posted on 08/14/2007 10:28:08 PM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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You sure they weren't armadillos?

Some of them are as big as the rats!

10 posted on 08/14/2007 10:30:40 PM PDT by Syncro
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To: weegee

Sanatarians??????

Why the devil may this law; if you are going to say one thing and mean another.

Another example of idiots at work. I can’t believe these people actually get paid and what the hell is a sanatarian. I wonder what bright light bulb thought that one up.


11 posted on 08/14/2007 10:31:30 PM PDT by freekitty
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Nope, they had fur, not armor. This was so long ago that we got sprayed by a DDT truck which was cooling off the mosquitoes.


12 posted on 08/14/2007 10:35:43 PM PDT by DeFault User
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LOL!


13 posted on 08/14/2007 10:39:46 PM PDT by Syncro
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To: weegee

I love the smell of fresh air in the morning. ;)


14 posted on 08/14/2007 11:33:09 PM PDT by anymouse
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To: weegee

I hate smoke nazis.......the same asshats that want your guns, your SUVs, your pitbulls.

They suck royally.

Little crybabies. Meterosexual fops and their mommy masters.


15 posted on 08/14/2007 11:39:49 PM PDT by wardaddy (My randy adult male doberman had more sexual morals than your ex-president you miss so much.)
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To: Duke Nukum

There’s a lot of conservative smoking Nazis....


16 posted on 08/14/2007 11:43:22 PM PDT by chasio649
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To: 1066AD
I guess no one cares any more about “Slime in the Ice Machine” LOL

A nationful of whining idiots!

If you were to put a sign saying "There is slime in this Ice Machine", most rational people would simply say, "thank you," and not use it.

That is never enough for the neurotics among us.

Simple Question: Why aren't "smoking only" bars and restaurants allowed?

17 posted on 08/14/2007 11:46:09 PM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: weegee; SheLion; Gabz; Just another Joe
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FMCDH(BITS)

18 posted on 08/15/2007 12:29:34 AM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: chasio649
Yeah, I bet they are also 300 Lbs. As a smoker, I want a fat ban in all public places. I fear that one day I may be crushed. Wasn't the National Socialist party the first to start smoking bans?
19 posted on 08/15/2007 12:43:13 AM PDT by thewitz
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Well...i don’t know about them all being fat...i just know people on the far right that absolutely detest smokers and would ban them from existence....this actually hits on something that has split the conservative movement...smaller govt types and authoritarians...the far right and the far left have some things in common.


20 posted on 08/15/2007 12:52:54 AM PDT by chasio649
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