[Normal4me]

I won't flame anyone for quitting smoking. Congrats to both of you. I do have a problem telling me where I can and can't smoke especially when it affects business owners. I have no problem NOT smoking in a restaurant in which I would be offending other people. I DO have a problem when the government says I can't smoke in a BAR if they sell food. I don't go to a restaurant to drink and shoot pool, if you are hungry go to a RESTAURANT not to my bar!

[cavtrooper21]

Oh, I agree...
Smoking and bars go together...
I was a non drinker long before I quit smoking, so this was never an issue, but a "non-smoking bar" isn't natural, like most liberals.

[Peace will be here soon]

No problems from me on that. I just avoid any business/restaurant/bar etc.. that allows smoking. If the business owner wants my money, he has to cater to my needs. Their choice, my choice. Simple as that. I agree the government has no business in this one. It is the choice of the owners and the customers.

[SheLion]

I don't go to a restaurant to drink and shoot pool, if you are hungry go to a RESTAURANT not to my bar!

The very same with me up here in norhtern Maine, Norma. All the restaurants in Maine were FORCED to go smoke free in 1999. Many restaurants closed.

We have three places left in the town where I live......they are bars/taverns. One is the Par and Grill. My very favorite full service menu. They invested in a very expensive liquor license to be able to keep the smokers. They invested in VERY expensive huge smoker eaters, renovated and installed a beautiful glass enclosed non-smoking room, complete with a TV. Yet.........come January, the anti's of Maine has forced another ban on us. But do you think the anti's of Maine will reimbuse the Par and Grill for all the great work they did? yea, right! :(

Guess it will be carry out and party at home. Maine's economy is so bad, yet the anti's could care less if some poor sap loses his business or not. What has this country come to, I ask you! We don't want the whole world. But we DO want our own places where we too can have a good meal and enjoy spending our money in a place that accommodates us.

[lewislynn]

I DO have a problem when the government says I can't smoke in a BAR if they sell food.

That would be a problem you're going to have to live with...get used to it.

One good thing, you won't be freezing your ass off down in Florida when you have to go out into the parking lot to have a fag.