Bars pull lottery plug (No Smoking Law Persuades Bar Owners To Fight Back!)

I find the thought of free citizens choosing to spend their free time standing around in bars, drunk, smoking, and pumping their money into government-run lottery machines, absolutely appalling.

I find the thought of the government barring otherwise free citizens from choosing to spend their free time standing around in bars, drunk, smoking, and pumping their money into government-run lottery machines, absolutely appalling to an exponential degree.

America is quickly becoming an illusion of freedom.

This law of banning smoking in bars is truly hypocritical...if in fact any of these politicians at the State level truly think the intent of the law is to save lives then just out law smoking in the state period. Not only will this save people from second hand smoke (ignoring the fact those who secured these jobs took them knowing people smoke in bars)but it will also save those people who smoke from themselves. OF COURSE THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN BECAUSE THOSE EVIL SMOKERS PUMP OVER TWO BUCKS IN TAXES PER EVERY PACK OF SMOKES PURCHASED INTO THE ECONOMY OF THE STATE.

I find the thought of free citizens choosing to spend their free time standing around in bars, drunk, smoking, and pumping their money into government-run lottery machines, absolutely appalling.

Please define "drunk". After work I go to the local watering hole to socialize and take the edge off the day. And since I'm not allowed to smoke at work, I have a smoke with my beer.

If I down 6 beers in 2~3 hours; am I drunk in your eyes? Trust me, I'm not. Oh sure, by some standard on a little machine set to some bureaucrats definition of drunk, I might be, (especially now now that the bureaucrats have lowered that threshold even more) but I'm not sluring my speech, bouncing off walls or walking in zig-zags. And if my state allowed such things, I might also put a dollar or two in the lottery machine, not that I do so on a regular basis. I also go to a casino on occasion when I'm in a town that hosts such establishments. But I don't make a habit out of it.

I suspect the vast majoraty of people you're talking about would fit into my category, so watch it!

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