[Timesink]

This is beautiful.

[Madame Dufarge]

"I will never come back here," she said outside the store

By God, she catches on quick, doesn't she?

[verity]

Good! The kids do not need all that fat and sugar!

[Quietly]

"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."

That's right. Go there. And *SHUT UP!*

This is just proof that the Nicotine Nazis are, indeed, Nazis. Smokers cannot be allowed a place to smoke, period. It doesn't matter if there are any number of smoke-free places to go, if there is one that isn't. Nicotine Nazis have rights and smokers don't. The end.

Unless smokers and anyone who cares about liberty at all start raising a bigger stink than tobacco smoke. This is happening because we all have lost our will to resist.

[another1]

Thank you for posting this article. It is unquestionably the most encouraging thing I have read in a long time.

[TADSLOS]

Capitalism and Entreprenuerism follows the money. I love it.

[jimt]

I nominate you for best post of the day. It IS a beautiful story !

[Frohickey]

City councillor Mark Lubosch, who chairs the committee that pushed for a ban on smoking indoors, called the businesses choosing to ban children "laggards."

"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."

Someone should give city councillor Mark Lubosch a class on what the main motive of businesses are. If its not making a profit, I don't know what it is.