[MissTargets]

There is also a online poll on the web page.

[MissTargets]

IIRC they tried a few years ago, to ban indoor smoking, and also on the streets.

[Agnes Heep]

I fear that things don't bode well for smokers. The trouble is that the smoking rate among adults is somewhere around 23 percent. That puts smokers in a decided minority, amongst a majority which finds secondhand smoke to be at best a sickening annoyance and at worst a health hazard.

[Gabz]

the poll is about mid page on the left hand side.......

We need a good old fashioned FREEPING HERE!!!!

[Piquaboy]

When is someone going to ban farting. That is really digusting and destroying the ozone layer.

[FrankR]

"Panel recommends banning all indoor public smoking in Cleveland."

About 5 or 6 years ago when all this anti-tobacco crap was starting, Rush predicted that eventually it would be against the law to smoke in your own home...well....all that's left is the omission of one word..."public". Then it will be:

"Panel recommends banning all indoor public smoking in Cleveland."

At that point, the anti-smoking cycle will be complete, and then they'll concentrate on the next freedom they want to remove.

The "secondhand smoke" theory has been discredited about as many times as it's been lauded...but pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...it's more of a "smoke screen" than a smoke problem.

Lawyers are salivating at the next "legal" product that will be outlawed and villified, so they can cash in on our freedoms again. Rabid anti-smoking zealots are interested in only their little piece of the world, and their freedoms...not anyone else.

If they can outlaw smoking in your own home, then they can outlaw other things like, for instance, making it against the law for you to put gas in your SUV; sueing you for lighting your charcoal grill, etc.

What is it going to take for American to give these people the collective finger and tell them to get lost?

[E Rocc]

The restaurant and bar owners will go ballistic, and probably block this. NE Ohioans as a rule are pretty libertarian minded...it's said that Prohibition was barely enforced in this area, except during the 1924 GOP convention. "Calamity Jane" might get behind it but Council will let it die.

Plus, there's no effective level of government between the city and the state, and Cleveland is ringed by suburbs even less likely to accept this nanny state logic than Cleveland proper is....hence the concerns of the restaurant/bar people. Even if Cleveland passed such a thing and tried to push the suburbs into following suit, at least ten would refuse simply on general principles.

-Eric