Posted on 09/28/2007 1:18:09 PM PDT by Daffynition
There are smoke-free offices, smoke-free bars, smoke-free malls. Could smoke-free apartment houses and condo towers be next?
Scattered apartment units across the state already ban smoking. But early next year, the Department of Public Health plans to survey landlords, condominium associations, and tenants about the feasibility of making smoke-free residential zones the norm, rather than the exception.
There could even be a state-run registry to connect tenants with landlords and condo boards that offer developments entirely devoid of smoke.
The state review emerges as an influential coalition of health and housing officials is issuing a sweeping call to make smoke-free housing standard across New England. The Asthma Regional Council will issue a report today saying that mounting evidence about the dangers of secondhand smoke, especially to children, provides the best argument for establishing rules that restrict smoking in buildings with multiple units.
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The camel is now halfway into the tent.
Nope. The camel is all the way inside the tent and taking a dump on the floor.
If you can't smoke inside your home or outside your home, where can you smoke?
I just can't wait to see the wailing and gnashing of teeth when all those "do-good" government programs that were formerly funded by cigarette taxes are forced to find money elsewhere because smoking became de facto prohibited and smokers everywhere finally threw up their hands and quit.
We don’t need no stinkin’ Fourth Amendment.
In other news from the People's Democratik Repulik of Massutopia, there is an actual proposal to require all cars to have tracking devices, so that drivers can be charged 5 cents per mile to drive the roads.
Officials say that the proposal is simply a way of charging drivers for usage of the state's roadways. Its just to raise some revenue: Really.
The state would never, ever, even THINK of using this system to track peoples' movements, or possibly calculate speeds and then issue speeding tickets.
When I was a kid, America was a free country. Not anymore. Too many Nazis.
At this time a tundra fire has burned 350 square miles in the north of Alaska. The fire began in July and will probably quit in another month. Smoke has been in the air, in cars, in houses, in schools all this time. It’s not cigarette smoke so it probably isn’t causing health effects except for creatures that breathe.
What kind of Nazi bullshi* is that?
My wife forbid me to smoke around our first born, 40 years ago. She doesn't allow smoking in the house by ANYONE (including me). Likewise, when she's in the car, smoking is not appreciated there, either.
I've smoked in the garage for 40 years.
HOWEVER, these anti-smoking zealots can kiss my ass.
It's MY property (all my acreage), and I run my own business where my office is MY turf, and I smoke there all I want.
Please don't post all the "health" reasons to quit....it's MY choice.
I think anytime a non-smoker dies from pulmonary disease, the cause is automatically attributed to second-hand smoke. They could have lived in the most polluted, smog-filled city and it doesn't matter, their death will somehow be linked to cigarette exposure.
And Europe is quickly following American's lead in banning smoking from public places.
Ironically, the countries where smokers have the most freedom are in the Middle East! Go to Dubai or Bahrain and freely puff away in the shopping malls, grocery stores, airports, elevators and bars (yes, they do have bars in the Middle East). In Arabia the restaurants have two sections: smoking and chain-smoking.
I lit up a cigarette in a mall in Dubai. It was strange to do so. I really felt like I was breaking the law and kept the cigarette cupped under my hand where it was hard to see.
Ya gotta talk to Cadillac Deval, the Commisar of Massutopia to get the answer to your question.
What else do you expect out of that Clintonite dumb@$$? Even his own base is angry with him.
“Scattered apartment units across the state already ban smoking. But early next year, the Department of Public Health plans to survey landlords, condominium associations, and tenants about the feasibility of making smoke-free residential zones the norm, rather than the exception.”
Your home is no longer your home, comrade.
Prolly a one-termer, but the damage from his programs will last longer than his Rule.
It will probably be another Dem, since Mass. is still coming off their bad experience with RINOs.
You don’t even have to live in the “land of the bean and cod” to find all sorts of do-gooders who would take away all your rights with a blink of their all-knowing eye.
Does burning tundra smell like peat when it burns?
It's like an electric heater with dust on the heater coils when it gets turned on. We're far enough away it doesn't have much odor although obviously something is burning. It's harsh though and the eyes and throat burn.
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