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Ohioans asked to turn each other in -- for smoking
State of Ohio ^

Posted on 11/28/2006 4:16:59 PM PST by GOP_Lady

Edited on 11/28/2006 4:21:05 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Sign to be posted at all public locations: "NO SMOKING. To report violations, call... It reminds me of Nazis.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: bigbrother; bugbrother; govwatch; nannystate; ohio; pufflist; smoking; smokingnazis
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To: buccaneer81
Sad to be an Ohioan ping.

Darn tooin'! I'm here in the Dayton area. I don't smoke. Never have, never will but I voted against this gawd-awful ordnance...(sigh) but then I voted for Ken Blackwell,too.

41 posted on 11/28/2006 5:19:48 PM PST by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: WhiteGuy

Actually, the American Cancer Society put forth the petition to put it on the ballot. Ohioans voted on it without totally considering it.


42 posted on 11/28/2006 5:20:04 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: GOP_Lady

Actually, the American Cancer Society put forth the petition to put it on the ballot. Ohioans voted on it without totally considering it.

It's all about the element of control, those who seek control (politicians) find the most direct path possible, which sometimes includes others doing their bidding.


43 posted on 11/28/2006 5:27:24 PM PST by WhiteGuy (GO BUCKS 12-0)
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To: WhiteGuy

No doubt. :-)


44 posted on 11/28/2006 5:28:23 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: KoRn

I can see it now! On weekends Ohioans (sp) will be going to the borders in Mich, Indiana, Kentucky, W. Vir, and Pennsylvania to grab a few drags.


45 posted on 11/28/2006 5:28:51 PM PST by kempster
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To: WhiteGuy

"Sadley, this is legislation that was enacted by a republican dominated state government."

Acatually it was Ohio prop 5 and was voted on by a majority of Ohioans. As an ex-smoker, I know how awful the habit is, but it is worse for people to legislate what a business owner can allow legally on his own property. Prop 4, which relegated smoking to the dives and late night clubs, seemed the more rational choice. Most of my church friends voted for Prop. 5, so I had to ask them why they cared what went on at bars they never go to anyway. They agreed with me, and then said they wanted smoking banned regardless. Damn, sometimes Savage is right.


46 posted on 11/28/2006 5:31:19 PM PST by TheeOhioInfidel
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To: yankeedame
I don't smoke. Never have, never will but I voted against this gawd-awful ordnance...(sigh) but then I voted for Ken Blackwell,too.

You and I did exactly the same thing. I may not like it (smoking), but freedom is another story.

47 posted on 11/28/2006 5:32:53 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: OhioInfidel

I like your screen name. :-)


48 posted on 11/28/2006 5:32:56 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: kempster

LOL!


49 posted on 11/28/2006 5:33:39 PM PST by KoRn
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To: GOP_Lady

First get the people to feel comfortable turning in others for smoking. After a while, add a few things. Your neighbor doesn't recycle? Turn him/her in. Turn in your neighbor for receiving gun magazines. Turn in your neighbor for his/her opinion. What? your neighbor doesn't like some of the "modifications" to marriage that liberals like? Turn him/her in. What? Your neighbor doesn't like the fascist direction that the USA is going in? Turn him/her in!


50 posted on 11/28/2006 5:35:54 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged ("progressivism" is actually another name for creeping totalitarianism)
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To: GOP_Lady

When I call them NicoNazis, I am not kidding!


51 posted on 11/28/2006 5:40:43 PM PST by rottndog (WOOF!!!)
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To: rottndog

Ohio, I LOVE that term!!! May I steal it from you, please? LoL.


52 posted on 11/28/2006 5:42:02 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: GOP_Lady

Please do. Spread it far and wide. ;0)


53 posted on 11/28/2006 5:45:05 PM PST by rottndog (WOOF!!!)
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To: North Coast Conservative; Pontiac; boxerblues; NeoCaveman; GOP_Lady; DollyCali; Commiewatcher; ...

NE Ohio pings...(from LVD, a non-smoker.)


54 posted on 11/28/2006 5:58:53 PM PST by Las Vegas Dave (HDTV ping list, please FReepmail me if you would like your name added.)
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To: buccaneer81

I'd trade being an Illinois resident for Ohio any day. (I've lived in Ohio my whole life until a few months ago)


55 posted on 11/28/2006 6:00:43 PM PST by M1thumb
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To: GOP_Lady
This law is the result of an Ohio ballot issue.

Voters here in Ohio forced this crap to be legislated. (I was among the minority that voted against it.)

56 posted on 11/28/2006 6:01:33 PM PST by untrained skeptic
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To: GOP_Lady

"I like your screen name. :-)"

And the Muzzies don't. It's win-win!


57 posted on 11/28/2006 6:07:31 PM PST by TheeOhioInfidel
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To: GOP_Lady

More govt regulation signs that businesses must post or be fined. We should all get into the sign making biz for the required by law posting of govt regs. There will be more and more like these. Soon you won't be able to see the business for all the required by law regulatory signs.

Oh yea, I'm sure they have already set the size it must be and where it must be placed...like all their other required by law signs for businesses.

WTG Ohio. Nice precedent. It wasn't enough for businesses to be forced to not allow smoking. Now they have to buy your stupid sign. Who's got the contract on that sign? Your brother in law? How much is your kickback Mr.Ms.Mrs.Miss legislator/s?





58 posted on 11/28/2006 6:17:18 PM PST by takenoprisoner
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To: untrained skeptic

I can't believe it passed, let alone by such huge margins. I swear some SMOKERS must have voted for it too.


59 posted on 11/28/2006 6:18:41 PM PST by RockinRight (There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.)
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To: Right Wing Assault
Wasn't that Dennis Kucinich I saw smoking the other day? And Governor-elect Strickland? And Senator-elect Sherrod Brown? I thought I saw them all smoking in forbidden places.

I second those motions!!

60 posted on 11/28/2006 6:21:40 PM PST by AmericaUnited
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