[SheLion]

We have the same thing going on in the Columbus area. The ban passed last year, and now all the suburbs are having their own little votes set up. I am a non-smoker who really hates to breathe in cigarette smoke, but I still plan to vote against the ban. I think this has less to do with clean air than it does to keep regulating what people should be able to figure out for themselves.

Maine forced a complete ban as well, last year.  It's not fairing too well.  At least, the smaller bars and restaurants aren't fairing too well, let's put it that way.

If a business owner wants smoke free, that should be left up to him and his patrons.  And not nanny government.  Nanny government didn't put blood, sweat and tears into a business.  Yet, they are allowed to go in and dictate how the owner is to run it?   Totally disgusting.

We have the same thing going on in the Columbus area. The ban passed last year, and now all the suburbs are having their own little votes set up. I am a non-smoker who really hates to breathe in cigarette smoke, but I still plan to vote against the ban. I think this has less to do with clean air than it does to keep regulating what people should be able to figure out for themselves.

Maine forced a complete ban as well, last year.  It's not fairing too well.  At least, the smaller bars and restaurants aren't fairing too well, let's put it that way.

If a business owner wants smoke free, that should be left up to him and his patrons.  And not nanny government.  Nanny government didn't put blood, sweat and tears into a business.  Yet, they are allowed to go in and dictate how the owner is to run it?   Totally disgusting.

[monkapotamus]

This deserves reposting:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/11/13/1100227634938.html?from=storylhs

"The regulars at Brian's bar agreed. The talk that night last week had been of the front-page picture on the New York Post. It was a close-cropped head-shot of a young GI in Fallujah, face smeared with fatigue and camouflage paint, and a daub of what on closer examination was revealed to be a splatter of dried blood down the bridge of his nose.

The face of battle - yes, but it wasn't the 10,000-yard stare of eyes fresh from combat that had the regulars' attention. It was the just-lit cigarette dangling from the soldier's lips. AdvertisementAdvertisement

"So that's how it works," quipped Brian. "Shoot a fookin' sand goblin, win a fookin' fag."

The regulars chuckled, as Americans always do at that imported word, which means gay, and only gay, on this side of the Atlantic. But they got his drift, and one of the patrons wondered if the soldier and his M-16 might not find fruitful employment on New York's home front.

"Mr Mayor, you son of a bitch," he began, making a gun with index finger and upraised thumb, "you're dead." Then, in defiance of the Big Apple's draconian smoking laws, he exhaled a plume of ostentatious rebellion towards the yellowed ceiling. "Fook you, Mr Michael Bloomberg," added Brian."

[absolootezer0]

If a business owner wants smoke free, that should be left up to him and his patrons. And not nanny government. Nanny government didn't put blood, sweat and tears into a business. Yet, they are allowed to go in and dictate how the owner is to run it? Totally disgusting.

if a bar owner wants a profitable smoke free building, he needs to lobby government to ban it everywhere. we recently had this problem in my county, just the county was going to ban smoking. altho all the owners i know don't smoke, and would like smoke free bars, they knew that many people would go the extra couple miles past county lines to go somewhere to smoke. owners said make it statewide or forget it.