Posted on 01/25/2003 8:00:03 AM PST by qam1
Edited on 05/07/2004 6:01:26 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
As opponents of the smoking ban rally to change the legislation they say is choking business, the state's tourism office is using the ban as a selling point.
The tourism office, in partnership with the state Division of Public Health, recently launched a $60,000 print, radio and billboard campaign designed to lure people from neighboring states to Delaware, selling them on the idea that they can "Eat, drink and breathe easy!" in the First State.
(Excerpt) Read more at delawareonline.com ...
* Gimme a break, Yeah somehow only smokers heard about the ban but nonsmokers didn't.
* It just shows the obvious, That most non-smokers don't give a rat's ass about smoking in bars/restaurants/casinos (While obviously smokers do.) Do these people really believe some non-smoker in South Jersey or in the middle of Pennsylvania is going to say to themselves "There is no smoking in Delaware lets go the there". Sorry the only people who care that much about smoking are the anti-smoking Nazis who make up only 1-3% of the population. And I am sorry but the Anti smoking Nazis aren't the type of people who go to bars or casinos or spend a lot of money at restaurants because other people there are having fun and for the most part the antis are the most miserable, unfunloving people in America.
* And who are they kidding. Even if somehow it were true that the people in the neighboring states somehow never heard about the ban where are all the nonsmoking people from Delaware that were supposedly going to go out more if the ban went into effect.
* Plus I love this quote "designed to lure people from neighboring states to Delaware, selling them on the idea that they can "Eat, drink and breathe easy!"".
Sounds like a good idea!!!, Lure people to Delaware from far away to drink there, Just what the roads in Delaware needs more of people driving who have been drinking.But hey if a family with children gets mowed down at least they didn't die of second hand smoke.
* Quote "Carrie Leishman of the Delaware Restaurant Association said she prefers the new billboard to an existing billboard on I-95 south, which just reminds drivers of the ban and provides an 800 number to report violators. You know what a way to promote your state. Put 800 numbers on billboards on the roads where you can snitch on other people trying to eek out a living.
* This Carrie Leishman has got to go, She has obviously put her personal hatred of smoking above the welfare of the restaurant owners she is supposed to represent. As a first step the restuarant people have got to get rid of her ASAP. I am sorry but if they don't at least try to remove her as their representative they deserve what they get
I have never heard of anyone being excited about vacationing in Delaware!
Yeah kind of like the things that the anti-cannabis Nazis do, except that they haven't started to put cigarette smokers in prison. Not yet anyway.
That place already exist it's called California.
You're right, but i was thinking of being able to go there for a visit one day, and.... well....if all those aformentioned doo-dahs went to Delaware.......sigh.
Or conversely, since there are more non-smokers than smokers, maybe all of the ashtray smelling, nicotine stained fingers, bad breath smokers could all move to one state. Say maybe Alaska
Yeah, And since we are at it since more people drive cars than SUVs maybe all of the road hogging, blocking your veiw, gaz guzzling SUV owners could all move to say Montana.
Give me a break, You are nothing more than another hypocrital, Pseudo-conservative who believes in freedom only as long they are freedoms you like.
But you know what if ALL the smokers did move to Alaska and the rest of the USA went smoke free the same thing would happen that is happening in Delaware. Alaska tourism would boom while the rest of the country would lose tourism.
Oh no we couldn't do that because you see I own an SUV, and we wouldn't want to place restrictions on the group that I am a part of.
"Give me a break, You are nothing more than another hypocrital, Pseudo-conservative who believes in freedom only as long they are freedoms you like."
ROTFLMAO
Pseudo-conservative, now if that isn't the pot calling the kettle black. Yea but it was ok for conservatives to be persecuting marijuana smokers, a group that can be demonstrability shown to cause harm to no one but perhaps themselves, because after all it was immoral, we have to protect the children, etc, etc, ad nauseam. Never is there an argument from conservatives as to the rights of the individual for them.
But when the coercive power of the government is turn upon your group, because your drug of choice has now fallen out of favor, we all of a sudden have a problem. Yea it was lots of fun to be persecuting, and putting in prison, those dirty bong-worshiping hippies, but now that you are the one being persecuted, it's not as much fun is it?
As they say, as you sow so shall you reap. So for those of us who have actually been advocating the rights of the individual for many years, there is a certain amount of karmic justice in all of this.
I have mixed emotions on this. Along with most conservatives, I believe the state should not be in the business of dictating public behavior to such an extent. Still, I'm tired of smelling like Joe Camel every time I come in from a night on the town. No, I don't think I'm going to contract lung cancer by having a drink at a bar with smokers present. But it sure is unpleasant.
Here in the heart of tobacco country, the only smoke-free reastaurants are the bean sprout and carrot juice type places. No thanks. Just once, I'd like to find a place where I could get a big rare steak and a bottle of Cabernet (I guess we all risk our health one way or another, eh?) without smelling the effects of people (even on the other side of the restaurant) who think it's perfectly normal to roll up dry leaves in paper, set it on fire, suck the smoke into their lungs, and exhale it for the "enjoyment" of all.
To me there is nothing that detracts from a fine wine like the odor of cigarette or cigar smoke. Isolation of smoke varies in its effectiveness from establishment to establishment, but the bar area, where I've been known to spend some time, always allows smoking.
Again, I am adamently opposed to government intervention along these lines. But maybe Delaware will end up being a lab of sorts, and some restauranteurs will see that there's a real market for smoke-free dining -- at least on the upscale end of the spectrum. Even as it is, generally speaking, the more expensive the restaurant, the lower the percentage of smoking customers; going smoke-free might be a relatively easy step for some establishments, and a profitable one, too.
This ones for you little guy!
As a smoker, I quit eating out years ago - I have better food at home, and people seemed intolerant of my (smoking) behavior. The heck with it. I can burn my own black angus t-bone at home, smoke as I wish, drink what I want, no risk.
Lower cost, too. Not that it really matters.
Non-smokers, however, continue to eat out, glaring at anyone with the nerve to discomfort them, demanding that the world conform to their notion of what is proper.
Ms. Grundy comes to mind.
Why is that?
Is there a personality disorder that assures one "I have a RIGHT not to be offended?"
Kind of like Femminazis?
One wonders if you find the atmosphere of a steak house so offensive, you don't just eat at home?
"Avert thine eyes," as it were.
This morning, there was a long diatribe on FR by some kid (a teenage girl) in Chicago who insists that the world conform to her femminist notion of justice. In the article, she admitted that she hangs out in clubs, dresses "loosely", frequents dangerous areas, disdains guns and violence, and is attractive (her assessment - I have no clue). When men whistle as she walks by, they are "offending her rights."
Nevermind that she is a rich middle-class kid, dressed like a tramp, in the worst part of town, late at night.
What, I wonder, will happen to that kid?
Note that her troubles stem from ignoring reality, ignoring the desires of others, insisting that the world conform to her idealism, and insisting that it matters not where she is.
You have a lot in common.
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