[mylife]

"These county-by-county, city-by-city smoking bans create terrible inequities," said Ron Wolf, executive director of the Georgia Restaurant Council.

Waffle House recently built three restaurants in Albany, spending more than $1 million, said state Sen. Don Balfour (R-Snellville), who is a vice president of the short-order chain. "Then Albany goes smoke-free and everybody leaves the city to go smoke at the two Huddle Houses outside the city limits."

Well there you have it. A waffle house without ciggies is tantamount to a wafflehouse without coffee or a newspaper!

[Vigilantcitizen]

"There is no such thing as a nonsmoking section in a restaurant," Cathy Wendhold-McDade told City Council members in Douglasville, where residents in November approved a nonbinding referendum for a public smoking ban. "You have a smoking section and you have a second-hand smoking section."

With a name like Wendhold-Mcdade...I can tell she ain't from Douglasville originally, but part of the invasion of transplants who have moved here, bringing their nanny state mindset with them.

This Douglasville native stopped eating out along time ago, but this is going to doom the Waffle House, which deserves better.

[claptrap]

There are no words for the lunacy of the smoking nazis!
If you dont smoke you probably think this is just fine
but these people will continue once they have sucess in this arena, next is your food intake and the consistency thereof, sexual practices when where and who with, then how you worship whatever it is you dane to worship, then it will be how long you will live depending on how useful you are. Its time for a rebelion its time to remove these people from power!

[GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY]

I don't understand what's going on in Georgia with these nannisitc anti-public smoking laws. The Republicans should be ashamed of themselves for not allowing the free market to dictate whether businesses allow or outlaw smoking in their own establishments. Let people decide through their own wallet whether to patronize restaurants that allow/ban smoking.

[SheLion]

Ok! Then how about stopping the Tobacco Settlement Money into the state then? Sounds fair to ME!

GEORGIA SMOKERS' CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STATE ECONOMY

[The Mayor]

This is slowly working it's way around the country.

It's killing buffalo businesses and they (the politicans) don't care..

[CSM]

Another group of socialists make themselves known!

[maxwell]

"These county-by-county, city-by-city smoking bans create terrible inequities,"

Yeah. Impose regulations equitably and make all businesses suffer.

[Paul C. Jesup]

This is NOT New York City, pulling BS like this in the state of Georgia will politically cost those who support very dearly.

[freeeee]

a bill being introduced today in the General Assembly seems to put the Peach State on the path to join California, Florida and others in enacting a statewide ban on smoking in restaurants and other public places.

A restraurant is not a public place, a sidewalk is.