[SheLion]

The anti-tobacco cartel should be brought up on RICO charges.

[SheLion]

PUFF

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Quit your whining. You've got good compared to Kalifornia. They are talking about banning smoking on the beach for Christ's sake.

You're state is even close to the level of insanity that Kalifornia is.

And my wife asked me today if I'd be willing to move back to Kali today. HAHAHA.

[ccmay]

Having a no-smoking zone in a restaurant is like having a no-pissing zone in a swimming pool.

I want drug addicts kept out of public places, lest they corrupt my children or injure my own health. Smoking tobacco (or pot) ought to be legal in one's home and a jailable offense outside it.

We can never get rid of drug addicts but at least we can keep them where they belong, out of the view and airspace of decent society.

-ccm

[Tall_Texan]

The city with probably more ti..boo..err topless entertainment establishments as any in the country and you can't smoke in 'em? Something's wrong with that picture...

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

This is in part, the reason the suburbs in the Houston and Dallas area are booming. Normal, well adjusted people move out.

[Tango Whiskey Papa]

Boy, would Sir Winston need a "good belt" of scotch this day and time.

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"My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them." Sir Winston Churchill

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

While I am extremely uncomfortable with the methods and goals too often used by the anti-smoking fanatics, too often forgotten by those complaining is the way people were treated 30 years ago who merely expressed an opinion against smoking.

IOW, What goes around, comes around.

[wcbtinman]

So, anybody still think that out of control govt can be stopped at the ballot box?

I've long thought that the smoking issue might be the last straw. Maybe it's time to remind these facists why the second amendment is in the Constitution. You think?

[VRWC_minion]

The handwriting is on the wall but smokers are in denial. The restaurants as a whole represented by their associations have determined that its cost beneficial to have state wide smoking bans.

This is an economic movement and not a rights movement. I agree that various groups have common ground but if it were not for the big restaurant chains to be for state wide bans.

[SW6906]

This is one of my pet peaves - business owners being forced to make their businesses smoke free. My wife and I used to own a beauty shop. The state (WA) was considering banning all smoking in any business. We were looking at customers having to get up while having their hair done (some women's coloring and such can take hours), walk outside 50 ft from the building, stand in the rain while their hair is processing to have a cigarette. It would have made getting your hair done an ordeal rather than a pleasure. Our other option was to put in a separate hermetically sealed, outside vented room where smokers could go. That would have cost tens of thousands of dollars. Over 50% of our customers smoked, so we fought this hard and they relented.

If I want to have customers smoke, why can't I? If people don't like smoke, they can take their business elsewhere. Why is this so hard to understand???

If this country is so free, why can't I start an all-smoking airline if I thought I could make money doing so?

Please add me to your puff list......

[lodwick]

Good G*d - and bttt

[InvisibleChurch]

who can say fer sure that the nicotine-nazis can even enforce it

[xm177e2]

In fact, there is no stopping a group of people organizing, coming up with their own "research", and lobbying to take our rights away because they don't like what others do.

That's right, we live in America, a Democratic Republic, where people are allowed to organize, associate, and speak freely.

If you have a problem with that, you should move to Canada.

[farmfriend]

They advocate putting into LAW that you can't... CAN NOT... smoke anywhere in the City of Dallas.

So you are anexing Dallas to California??? Now that is news.

[metesky]

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New York is one of a number of U.S. cities considering a ban on smoking in restaurants and bars. What do you think?

		"This is a victory for annoying people like me who call cigarettes 'coffin nails' and 'cancer sticks' and all that sort of stuff."
Shelly Sabel Lighting Designer

		"Has Amnesty International heard about this?"
Jef Awada Real-Estate Agent

		"I can't stand cigarette smoke, but no one seems to care down at the Drink & Smoke & Drink & Smoke Tavern."
Tom Epstein Actor

		"Now that New York has addressed the problem of secondhand smoke, maybe they'll tackle the problem of secondhand human-waste stench."
Jim Mackil Advertising Executive

		"But what will I draw slowly on to indicate that I'm contemplating what's been said by my dinner companion?"
Dennis McCormack Systems Analyst

		"As a bar waitress, I'm glad someone is protecting my right to work in a bar that doesn't make any money."
Elizabeth Gabbay Waitress

[Cvengr]

"There is a time to laugh and a time not to laugh, and this is not one of them."----Inspector Jacques Clouseau

[justsomedude]

howabout a 28 billion dollar verdict for a 64 year old smoker, like an LA jury just awarded against Philip Morris. Pretty outrageous, eh?

What do these people do, get lawyers to send them the names of people who name leftist causes in their wills, and then use them as fodder in these lawsuits?