Doughnut shop bans children to allow customers to smoke

The Globe and Mail ^ | January 5, 2001 | Krista Foss

[Timesink]

This is beautiful.

[KantianBurke]

"I will never come back here," she said outside the store. "There are plenty of places in this town where I can buy coffee with my kids -- and they're smoke-free, too."

So why the $%^%& did you need to pass some Nazi law to enable that in the first place you dimwit???

[Rowdee]

..."Those businesses that are putting smokers ahead of youth are shortsighted and grossly irresponsible," he said. "They are putting profits ahead of employees and customers. This issue has always been about health."...

Yeah, right, uh-huh.......January 1, 2003 will se government imposing a ban because donuts are fattening and someone has a study somewhere that children are overweight and obese and don't get enough exercise.

[AM2000]

Children are a ... minority... you can't discriminate against them simply because you want to make money."

Children are a minority? Well then, technically, so are the owners of doughnut shops. And the customers. Which minority gets its rights protected?

[DWSUWF]

One of these days we'll have to have a climactic battle...

Normal, decent people on one side, and stinking liberal pukes on the other.

Like that scene in 'Braveheart'...

Two enormous crowds just running toward each other swinging whatever is handy and screaming at the top of their lungs.

[Senator Pardek]

Ugh - I've seen it all. Some Canucks understand Capitalism more than we do.

[bettina0]

Did that lady pass the law?

[sirshackleton]

Love it.

These businesses are just that: BUSINESSES. They're not daycares charged with watching after children. Besides, who's more likely to give you business, the guy with the job (who just happens to smoke), or the kid with no job.

[SeaDragon]

For Ms. Jonasson, the idea that a place dedicated to jelly-filled confections would allow parents with children to use only the drive-through window is insulting.

For pity's sake, get a grip.........

Children having everything their little black hearts desire is not the be all, end all of the world!

[BansheeBill]

Already posted under it's actual title HERE

[KantianBurke]

Dimes to donuts she was one of its supporters. Regardless it appears she's never been introduced to the concept of UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.

[Tarzantheape]

Another case where the village refuses to raise the child...I bet Hillary's butt is puckered so tight that her panties will look tie-died if ever she gets them removed....Heh, heh...

[Howlin]

I cannot help myself; I am on the floor here.

I'm picturing soccer moms huddled outside of donut shops and restaurants with their kids in cold, blowing rain.

And I'm liking what I see!

[bettina0]

The issue has always been about health? What a load of crap! The issue is serving customers and making oodles of MONEY in the process! Believe me, someone will start a doughnut business that serves non-smokers and their kids and they'll make a ton of money!

[Howlin]

Maybe somebody that comes on this thread can point me to the part of the Constitution that guarantees donuts to children.

[Howlin]

you can't discriminate against them simply because you want to make money."

*Rolling eyes*

[monkeyshine]

ROFL. Stupid laws. They shouldn't bring kids to a donut shop anyway -- too fattening! There augtta be a law!

Here in CA, they just made a law that all smokes must be behind a counter, for full service sale, to prevent children from stealing smokes. A friend of mine who owns a smoke shop was ticked off.. he couldn't possibly move all tobacco items in the shop behind the counter, so he built a small counter, stuck a cash register on it, put it in front of the enclave where all cartons of smokes are stored, and put up a sign that said "full service only". Of course, it is not full service. He doesn't use that register, it is just subterfuge for the cops.

[bettina0]

Do you think Bill is going to remove Hillary's panties anytime soon?

[monkeyshine]

I'd go out of my way to visit a kid-free, smoking donut shop.

Heck yeah! Unfortunately for me that means at least a 220 mile drive.