Boston Mayor Offers Smoking Ban At Work, Bars,Restaurants

Yahoo News ^ | 24 September 2002

[SheLion]

[Frohickey]

Sounds like the bars and restaurants should start closing up and instead turn themselves into private clubs with member patrons.

Then, they can refuse service to whoever they feel do not fit the clientele that they want to serve.

[SamAdams76]

Guess I won't be going to any restaurants downtown anymore...and I don't even smoke!

[evilsmoker]

Here we go again...

[SheLion]

The Boston Public Health Commission has authority to pass health regulations, so a smoking ban doesn't need City Council approval, though public hearings will be held.

The Public Health Commission can do it. Boston doesn't even need the City Council approval. Public hearing? Wonder how many will show up to protest........

[Argus]

Is it still legal to smoke in a cigar store?

[SheLion]

Is it still legal to smoke in a cigar store?

For the time being. ~sigh......

[aruanan]

Boston Mayor Offers Smoking Ban At Work, Bars,Restaurants

Little boys like Menino are always doing something stupid.

[ozone1]

What would Red Auerbach do?

[BfloGuy]

From time to time Limbaugh brings this topic up on his show.

It's so disheartening to hear people who call themselves conservative, and yet, are so dismissive of property rights that they think these smoking bans are just fine.

[WyCoKsRepublican]

I am a right wing zealot and I am all for inalienable rights. But as a non smoker, I love being in a smoke free restaurant or bar. Sorry amigos, I disagree with you on this one........

[SamAdams76]

Move to L.A. and take over the Lakers.

[SheLion]

I am a right wing zealot and I am all for inalienable rights. But as a non smoker, I love being in a smoke free restaurant or bar. Sorry amigos, I disagree with you on this one........

Non smokers shouldn't want the whole world, and neither do the smokers. There should be a place for us all. And it should be up to the business owner, NOT the government.

[I'm_With_Orwell]

Sorry amigos, I disagree with you on this one........

What's wrong with passing a law simply requiring businesses to post their smoking/no-smoking policy prominently at the entrance to the premises?

Then everyone knows what their getting in to from the outset and 25% of your fellow citizens still have places to go where they can eat, drink and indulge in their pleasure with like-minded individuals.

Alternatively, you are saying that you want to reserve your right to enter any establishment in the world and find that it's non-smoking, even if you've never heard of the place and have no intention of ever going there.

If the policy of an establishment was that it allowed smoking, you wouldn't go there, but I would. What's wrong with that?

[KS Flyover]

I am a right wing zealot and I am all for inalienable rights. But as a non smoker, I love being in a it when the government usurps the rights of property owners to create a smoke free restaurant or bar.

That's what you really meant, isn't it?

[jdontom]

"It seems like a reasonable enough compromise," she said.

My dear Anne their is no compromise with these homofobe non-smokers...

[SheLion]

So, the Board of Health can do whatever they want to whomever they want. Power sure has gone to their heads.