Smoking in Big Easy bars, gambling halls to end in April

ap ^ | January 30, 2015 | CAIN BURDEAU

[Drango]

NEW ORLEANS

[Ditter]

I said “my mother father and every member of *their generation” That would be the WW2 generation not mine or yours. Go back and read it again. Hey just think if smoking is outlawed at the places you like to go, you can get a chaw or just dip.

[P-Marlowe]

If you approve of this law then you are a Nanny Stater.

If this law makes you happy rather than upset, then you are a Nanny Stater.

If you think this law is a violation of the inalienable rights of property owners, then you are a Freeper.

[Mad Dawgg]

They did this stunt in Ohio as well made us building owners stop all smoking in any building that is open to the public. I hate cigarette smoke can't stand the smell. But I hate even more the government telling me what I can and can't do in it as far as smoking or drinking etc.

We had already banned smoking in our building we did not need the state to make it mandatory but they went ahead and did so.

They said it was to protect the public. We used to go out and eat a lot some times we would try a new restaurant and it would reek of cigarettes. We needed no one to protect us. We just left and went somewhere else, problem solved. But the frigging nanny-staters had to have their way and now we all have to lose one more freedom.

[P-Marlowe]

But the frigging nanny-staters had to have their way and now we all have to lose one more freedom.

It is truly amazing to see all the closet Nanny Staters on this site when some Nanny State Nazi passes a law that benefits them personally. They are willing to rob other people of their Liberty when it benefits them personally in some way.

Prohibiting smoking may make a non smoker happy bit it robs the liberty of those who smoke.

Frankly, even though I detest the smell of cigarette smoke, I can't imagine a New Orleans Jazz Club without the atmosphere of wafting clouds of second hand smoke.

My guess is that most Jazz Club owners will not enforce this law. If the police want to come in and arrest smokers, then they can do do at their own risk. I suspect that the police will not enforce it either.

This is a law designed to make politicians feel good about themselves. Kinda like Obamacare.

[hal ogen]

I never smoke. I tolerate those who do because I like Freedom. If it bothers me, I would leave the premises. There seem to be a lot of Freepers who like statist answers to smoking. Freedom should be preeminent.