[Namyak]

more big-brother health-nazi insanity, this time in my home state of Pennsylvania. Just my own two-cents, as a man who enjoys cigars when he drinks, the day this passes is the last day I go to a bar. This is getting out of hand.

[RandallFlagg]

Ping-a-roonie.

[mozrock]

NOOOOO!! I never thought it would make it here!

[NRA1995]

What's stopping this woman and others like her from establishing their very own smokeless bingo hall?

[mysterio]

It makes me sad to see the government still make money of the smokers it treats like dirt.

I think people will take just baout anything from government. We won't see another revolution unless they try to ban TV sports and doritos.

[philsfan24]

how bout the fake casinos they are building? i bet they wont be smoke free.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Taverns and sportsbar patrons lean Democrat. If such a ban passes expect Fast Eddie and most Dems to get ran out of office. It's happening here in WI and Gov. Doyle is refusing to sign a bill that exempts bars and restaurants from smoking bans.

Either smoking should be banned or it should be left the hell alone. It's time to draw a line in the sand instead of being nickeled and dimed to death!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

the day this passes is the last day I go to a bar.

Yep. These smoking bans are more reasons why people are staying home for entertainment. People can just stay home and drink and smoke all they want (until some busybody tries to ban smoking in homes too)

[Just another Joe]

Man, I hate the nanny state mentality that most govenrment bodies have nowadays.
"It's for the workers.", "It's for the public health.", "It's for the xxxxxxxxxxxxx."

Well, if it's so great why don't bar and restaurant owners go nonsmoking to begin with?

Take my country and make it a socialist worker's paradise. "Oh great Government, give us this day our daily bread"

AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gabz]

I hate to tell these people, but these are not "public workplaces" they are private businesses.

When it comes to the zealots in favor of government imposed smoking bans - there are no conservatives and there are no liberals - they are exactly the same - they lose all semblance of th differences between the two and march in lock-step with each other.


(as always, if you want on or off this puff list let me know)

[an amused spectator]

Violators would be subject to fines of up to $100 for the first violation, $200 for the second violation within one year and $500 for subsequent violations in the same year.

Revenooer alert!

I can envision a new American national sport within a few years:

Violatin'

See how many "violations" you can rack up in a certain length of time. Guinness Book of Records stuff, ya know. ;-)

[SheLion]

Disgusted ping....

[SoothingDave]

Mary Molinaro loves bingo, but it's been ages since she's played. "They smoke up a storm in those bingos. It gives me a headache," said Mrs. Molinaro, 72, of Glassport.

Hey lady, there are many bingos around with non-smoking rooms or totally non-smoking.

Hey, Post-Gazette, you are supposed to be a newspaper. You should know this as well. Tell me you have no bingo ads in your paper.

SD

[Dan from Michigan]

"They smoke up a storm in those bingos. It gives me a headache," said Mrs. Molinaro, 72, of Glassport.

Then don't patronize the establishment.