Put it this way -- would you want to be the poor schlub who has to tell the mayor's friends that they're violating the law?
The smoking ban went into effect in Delaware the day before Thanksgiving in 2002. We were then and remain a nation at war and the unfortunate result of war is that we lose some of our servicemen. Dover Air Force Base is where the remains of these brave Freedom Fighters touch US soil for the last time.
Many of us posed the simple question to the legislators and the governor who endorced the ban if they would be willing to act as the "bouncer" in the bars in the Dover area when servicemen came in for a beer after escorting the remains of one of their buddies. Would any of them be willing to be the one that said "Soldier, take it outside" to a man who had just come from fighting for the freedoms he swore an oath to uphold?
To this day, not a one of us has received an answer.
As a born and raised Brooklynite - I agree with another poster - bloominidiot is scum......and I add much of the Delaware legislature and it's governor to that list.