Ohioans won't support total smoking ban

Dayton Business Journal ^ | 3-8-06

[jerry639]

Yes you may. Thanks

[Gabz]

consider it done.

And thank you for your plain spokeness.......it's refreshing.

[Just another Joe]

What's the difference if the law is implemented directly by the constituents or the electors?

A law should not be able to take a right.

An amended constitution can take a right.

[Madame Dufarge]

Tap dancers.

It must get exhausting for the victim class.

[jerry639]

Some of the anti-smoker comments are hilarious.
Personally I don't smoke in restaurants. I go there to eat.
However, I don't care if someone else does light one up.
To some, smokers are not only killing others they are litters too.
If they would like to start another thread on littering I would be happy to contribute. Have property that borders on 2 streets in town and acreage a few miles from town. I get all imagined kinds of litter thrown out on my property.
Do I go to the police or start a group to ban littering? No, because all the complaints to police and all the laws they could pass will accomplish no more good than all the anti-smoking bans they can pass. I just go out vocationally with my tractor, wagon, rake and pitchfork and clean it all up.

[Martins kid]

I have also noticed that there seems to be just as much business in no smoking states as in smoking states. I didn't take my kids bowling for years until we could find a non-smoking bowling alley - and it was a very busy place. Here in most restaurants in Ohio there is a wait for the non-smoking section and immediate seating in smoking with empty seats. Many times I see non-smokers sit in the smoking section only because they don't want to wait. Smart businesses have gone no smoking. Cuts cleaning bills and maintenance also - and increases sales.

[The Foolkiller]

He doesn't care because he doesn't like the smell. That simple.

[Martins kid]

Well said. I hate washing my hair and putting on perfume only to have it all overpowered and ruined by cigarette smoke.

[The Foolkiller]

I'm tired of picking plastic bags out of my trees and flower beds, myself. Nobody ever mentions those, though.

[Gabz]

The anti-smokers are hilarious.

I have 500 feet of road frontage on a road that is very busy during good weather (fishing village and camp grounds all on same road) so I am totally with you on the litter issue.

[Gabz]

Smart businesses have gone no smoking. Cuts cleaning bills and maintenance also - and increases sales.

If that is so, then there is no reason to pass a law to make all businesses non-smoking. Let the owners decide. It is, after all, their money they are gambling, no one else's.

[The Foolkiller]

You're a good man. This 64-year-old says so. Young anti-smoker pups-I REALLY liked that. ;^)

"To live outside the law, you must be honest."
-Bob Dylan lyric

[Madame Dufarge]

God, do I hate the smell of perfume.

It makes me physically ill.

I think I'll start a campaign to ban it.

Isn't that what laws are for, to accommodate everyone's personal likes and dislikes?

[Gabz]

And so because you don't like the smell you agree to passing a law to make that totally personal choice mandatory to everyone. Did it ever occur to you that someone else may actually like the smell?

[Just another Joe]

Smart businesses have gone no smoking.

Some businesses find their niche.
Why can't you let the business owner decide?

If it IS actually smart business to go nonsmoking then they will. If not they won't.

I have no problem with a business owner deciding, for themselves, to have a nonsmoking business.

[jerry639]

Sure hope they don't get into smell bans.
Although I do take a shower twice a day, at any given time during the day I might smell like fresh mown grass, paint, or sawdust. Will have to start using more cologne.
Between violating smoking bans and smell bans I am destined to be a lifer in prison at anytime. lol

[RandallFlagg]

We all know it's coming.{soda, fast-food etc.}These fools think it will stop at tobacco. Anyone with a brain should know better.

The heat is intensifying on caffeine now. I hope our pal above isn't a coffee drinker.

[RandallFlagg]

I actually saw a commercial today that said second hand smoke was WORSE than smoking.

Lemme guess. truth.org?

[RandallFlagg]

Amazing display of infantile name calling.

You didn't exactly paint the thread with roses with your second post to this thread:

Translation: Wiser and smarter folks know smoking is bad for you.

You don't really have much room to talk when it comes to, "Name-calling," when you're belittling every smoking FReeper from the get-go.
But, please don't stop. It's highly revealing to those who are on the fence about this issue.

[RandallFlagg]

You can work to get tobacco taxes raise to unbelievable levels and I will just grow my own tobacco and never pay any taxes on it.

HEY THERE, fellow tobacco grower! You start your crop yet? If not, now's the time!