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Advocates push for a ban on all smoking in Cincinnati bars,restaurants and workplaces.
The Cincinnati Enquirer ^
| Wednesday, June 9, 2004
| Matt Leingang
Posted on 06/09/2004 6:54:19 AM PDT by yankeedame
Edited on 06/09/2004 7:56:05 AM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: cincinnati; pufflist; smokingbans
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To: Rubber_Duckie_27
I'm an asthmatic and it now means I can go out and enjoy myself instead of worrying about an inconsiderate smoker. Make sure you do go out and support the places where the people who smoked can't go anymore. Make sure you take all your non-smoking friends to make up for the loss of revenue the business will notice. Make sure your favorite place stays open!
As for me, I would much rather have the business owner and his patrons decide to have a smoking section or not, instead of Big Government.
"inconsiderate smoker?" That statement alone tells me what kind of person YOU are.
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posted on
06/09/2004 10:39:33 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(Don Imus is voting for FnKerry!)
To: SheLion
I guess I'm one of those undereducated, toothless, mullet-eating backwoods inbred hillbilly cretins. I'm just going to keep having my five cigarettes a day, down here in the Ozarks where they AIN'T no smokenazis.
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posted on
06/09/2004 10:45:55 AM PDT
by
Judith Anne
(HOW ARE WE EVER GOING TO CLEAN UP ALL THIS MESS?)
To: appalachian_dweller
You know, I'm sick and tried of people with nothing better to do than to try to mind my business. They should go out and get real jobs, maybe even contribute something useful to society. Guess that's too much like real work for these lazy, inept morons. We got some local piss ants in here today. I don't think I will hang around. It's hot here and I'm not about to let these idiots ruin my day!
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posted on
06/09/2004 10:45:55 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(Don Imus is voting for FnKerry!)
To: SheLion
Local pissants is right. Later, FRiend.
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posted on
06/09/2004 10:46:38 AM PDT
by
Judith Anne
(HOW ARE WE EVER GOING TO CLEAN UP ALL THIS MESS?)
To: Judith Anne
I guess I'm one of those undereducated, toothless, mullet-eating backwoods inbred hillbilly cretins. I'm just going to keep having my five cigarettes a day, down here in the Ozarks where they AIN'T no smokenazis. Just like I just said: we have some local piss ants in here today.
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posted on
06/09/2004 10:47:27 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(Don Imus is voting for FnKerry!)
To: Judith Anne
I'm a goon too! Let's form a stupid goon redneck party!
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posted on
06/09/2004 11:15:07 AM PDT
by
CSM
(Liberals may see Saddam's mass graves in Iraq as half-full, but I prefer to see them as half-empty.)
To: CSM
Yippee!!! *puff-puff* ahhhhhhhhhhh......;-D
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posted on
06/09/2004 11:34:26 AM PDT
by
Judith Anne
(HOW ARE WE EVER GOING TO CLEAN UP ALL THIS MESS?)
To: CSM; Judith Anne
I'm in!!!!
Sounds like fun!
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posted on
06/09/2004 11:55:55 AM PDT
by
Mears
To: Mears
Wheeehaw! I'm going to grab me a six, git in my suit, put a smoke or two in a plastic bag with a lighter, and head down to the river for a swim! Y'all come!
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posted on
06/09/2004 12:01:02 PM PDT
by
Judith Anne
(HOW ARE WE EVER GOING TO CLEAN UP ALL THIS MESS?)
To: Judith Anne
Sounds really tempting. Very hot here in Mass today.
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posted on
06/09/2004 12:04:54 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: yall
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posted on
06/09/2004 12:05:08 PM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is ONLY ONE good Democrat: one that has just been voted OUT of POWER ! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: cinFLA
This is nothing that a large dose of civil disobediance can't cure. These smoking bans are issued as mandate upon the people, they are not voted on. They specifically effect private property owners, something the founders would abhor.
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posted on
06/09/2004 12:10:24 PM PDT
by
ohioman
To: yankeedame
California, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio......unbelievable.
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posted on
06/09/2004 12:12:32 PM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: yankeedame
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posted on
06/09/2004 12:13:15 PM PDT
by
Protagoras
(government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." ...Ronald Reagan, 1981)
To: ohioman
This is nothing that a large dose of civil disobediance can't cure.There is no large dose of civil disobeiance for a reason. The smokers know they are in the wrong.
These smoking bans are issued as mandate upon the people, they are not voted on.
Please tell the earlier posters this. They are railing against "democracy" and the "tyranny of the majority".
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posted on
06/09/2004 12:14:23 PM PDT
by
cinFLA
To: Looking4Truth
Government sticking its nose into a PRIVATE PROPERTY issue! All other arguments are irrelavent.BINGO
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posted on
06/09/2004 12:15:47 PM PDT
by
Protagoras
(government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." ...Ronald Reagan, 1981)
To: ohioman
These smoking bans are issued as mandate upon the people, they are not voted on. We are not a democracy. Did you think we were?
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posted on
06/09/2004 12:17:14 PM PDT
by
cinFLA
To: cinFLA
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posted on
06/09/2004 12:17:40 PM PDT
by
Protagoras
(government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." ...Ronald Reagan, 1981)
To: Protagoras
Seek help. Please help me understand. Some are saying it is a 'tyranny of the majority' and others are saying it is a few ignoring the voice of the majority.
Please help me understand which it is?
I think it is an example of representative government as our founding father designed.
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posted on
06/09/2004 12:24:11 PM PDT
by
cinFLA
To: SheLion
"inconsiderate smoker?" That statement alone tells me what kind of person YOU are.
Have you ever tried to breathe when a rude, drunken idiot exhales smoke directly into your face from a foot or two away...and then laughs while you grab for your inhaler and continues to blow smoke at you while you try to get medicine into your lungs? Your right to smoke does not trump my right to breathe.
I did not mean this to say that all smokers are inconsiderate, and indeed I've known a number of smokers who are very considerate. I can see how it may have been misinterpreted, I should have made it more clear that I was referring to those smokers who do act like jerks when people with lung problems experience distress. I've had it happen on more than one occasion, as well.
I made it a point to patronize non-smoking businesses before, but sometimes it was unavoidable to go into an establishment that allowed it. I made it very clear in the post you reacted so strongly to that I liked the smoking ban here for purely selfish reasons, didn't I? I do think that smoking bans in bars and clubs are an unacceptable government intrusion in private businesses that cater to adults. I'd rather the business make that decision.
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