[SheLion]

Is it just me, or is anyone else getting a little sick and tired of the Nanny Do-Gooders in this state?

"They" don't want smokers inside and they don't want smokers outside..so just ban the d*mn stuff and be done with it!

[SheLion]

[Leisler]

Their property, town and state, is theirs to do with as they see fit. Your property is theirs to do with as they see fit. That's the difference between public property and private.

[steve50]

No one would police the zones or issue fines, say the city officials behind the proposal, because those elements would require manpower and a change to city ordinances.

Where have I heard that song and dance before. Oh yeh, the old we'll never make traffic stops for a seatbelt violation, only charge it if it occurs as part of another violation. Get the foot in the door and work from there. The UN wants a smoke free world, can't waste valuable resources treating the livestock.

[metesky]

Jane William isn't impressed by people who smoke by the basketball courts at Portland's Payson Park, but she says other teenagers may be getting the wrong message.

"I think it smells," William, a lanky, 14-year-old, said forcefully. "They want to be cool."

Imagine not being able to sit on a park bench overlooking the Eastern Promenade smoking a cigarette or a cheap cigar simply because some whiny 14 year olds are put up to it by their indoctrination facilitators teachers and enablers from "Kids for a Tobacco Free Maine".

These people are idiots.

[H2dude]

I agree completely. If pot is illegal, and is smoked, and toabcco causes about 100,000 times as much in health care costs and is legal, the guvmint is hypocrites and beholden to the tobacco industy. Of course, this is mostly becuase they just want the tax money and the straw dog to beat their chests about. Not unlike pot, which I have noticed many more super-scary ads on TV about lately. What a bunch of morons, IM N-T-B-H O.

[Nik Naym]

I don't know who has me on a ping list, but would the appropriate person please remove me? Thank you.

[CSM]

""If (youths) see tobacco use as a normal part of what's going on, they're more likely to see tobacco use as a normal part of life for them," said Richard Veilleux, a program coordinator for the city's Health and Human Services Department."

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At the same time we demonize smoking, we have a society trying to normalize homosexual behaviour. We are even teaching sexual lifestyles to these same children that we want to protect from the "image" of smoking a cigarette. Where does Portland stand on legalizing MJ?