It is a state-wide smoking ban forpublicprivately owned indoor places such as resturants, bars and a few other venues.
A little less ambiguous there, if the state wants to regulate it, the state should make some "public" restaurants to regulate on the line of "public" restrooms, town squares, parks etc...
Of course, give the states track record of quality in pretty much any endeavour, I'm willing to bet vast sums of money that a state restaurant that prohibits smoking will echo with the sounds of crickets when competing with a private restaurant that allows it and to top off the irony, the morons wanting to ban the smoking will still be in the private restaurants...
Can I ask you what you expect non-smokers to do?
Seriously, do you want them to open up new restaurants across the state so that they can eat without having to come home stinking like a trashfire? Are they supposed to forget about going to chain resturants?
Do you think it’s okay for them to have to send their clothes to the cleaners every time after they eat out?
Do you think elderly people should be banned from restaurants? What about kids? What about people with asthma? What about people with COPD?
Do you think it is more reasonable to allow some to stink up the place rather than share the space then smoke outside?
Do you consider non-smokers to be the real rude ones?
For the life of me, I just don’t understand people who smoke. Everyone has to cater to them. They trow their trash all over the gound. They burn stuff down. They go to sleep with a cigarette in their mouths killing themselves, family members and neighbors. They start forest fires.
They go outside to smoke, take that one last puff then return inside to exhale. Then they notice their coworkers glaring at them and say, “What?”
I don’t care if folks want to smoke. I just don’t happen to be a person that would stick it to everyone else in the state just because I chose to develop a filthy stinking habbit and didn’t have the class to think of others once in a while.
It is equal when both parties enter a building so that the other can enjoy the experience. It is not equal when one set of people light up and defy others to stop them.
Honest to God, does smoking really affect your judgement to the extent that you think the state should build non-smoking venues across it’s landscape, simply because you won’t share the clean air with others?
Just damn!