Posted on 01/11/2006 5:10:12 PM PST by elkfersupper
Ok. Thanks!! If you find out, please let me know.
I read hte bill yesterday, and IIRC a hotel can reserve up to 20% of the rooms as smoking rooms.
As an interesting side note, about a year ago, one church changed their bingo hall to be smoke free and their revenue decreased somewhere between 15% and 20%. If I read the bill correctly, bingo halls will not be exempt.
I turned it on for about an hour and I didn't hear any politicians speak.
Oh dear. :(
It seems hotels are exempt from the ban also as long as no more than 20% of the rooms are set aside for smoking.
Better then nothing, I guess.
Now this is a protest that I could sink my teeth into.
20% - 25% of hotel rooms being able to be set aside as smoking rooms is pretty standard under these bans.
The private clubs, like the Kingihts, Legions, VFWs, etc rally have me .........they are even MORE private than the private bars and restaurants this covers.
The private clubs and churches really bother me too.
sounds like a cunning stunt ...
Don't get me started on the Churches...........talk about seperation of church and state stuff........
In Delaware the Volunteer Fire Companies are exempt, just like the fraternal and veterans' organizations but the Churches are not. There is a provision for applying for an exemption, and one local Catholic Church applied for an exemption for it's Bingo.....it was denied.
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Our firehouses aren't exempt either.
Even though my MIL was a lifelong smoker she hated the smell of cigarette smoke and dirty ashtrays so she would put wet paper towels on the bottoms of her giant ashtrays that looked more like candy dishes so the cigarettes would immediately self-extinguish; this story brings forth a picture of a more natural alternative.
Good grief.
Apparently the VFD lobby is stronger than even the racetracks in Delaware.
The exemption for the fire companies was in part an appeasement because originally the bars and tracks were to be exempt..............but it was also appeasement because they had fought against the slots at the tracks for so long because of what it would do to their bingo. Of course no one came to the defense of the Senior Centers and Churches about their bingo. Many of them have shut down because the fire companies were attracting all the smokers.
Actually it was quite stunning.
I was thinking today that strippers may actually be the purest capitalists - natural allies.
Thanks for the link to the smoking ban act
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2004/Bills/S2000/1926_R2.HTM
4. a. Smoking is prohibited in an indoor public place or workplace, except as otherwise provided in this act.
b. Smoking is prohibited in any area of any building of, or on the grounds of, any public or nonpublic elementary or secondary school, regardless of whether the area is an indoor public place or is outdoors.
Given 4.b it would appear that if a bingo hall is within a catholic school auditorium, then patrons are not permitted to smoke outside.
Follow up thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1557319/posts
N.J. strippers protest indoor smoking ban
Thanks for the ping.
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