Posted on 10/16/2002 12:05:46 PM PDT by SheLion
A proposal to ban smoking in all workplaces in Boston has not met with much controversy. The ordinance will be voted on by the Public Health Commission. "It'll hurt business originally, but then people will get used to the non-smoking thing,
NewsCenter 5's Kelley Tuthill reported that since Mayor Thomas Menino proposed the ban three weeks ago, there has not been much of a response, according to city officials. The ordinance would make all workplaces smoke free, including restaurants, bars and clubs.
"We haven't received as much input as we expected we would," commission member John Auerbach said. "We received a number of letters -- scores of letters -- and the letters are running about 10-to-1 in favor of the regulation."
Currently in Boston, smoking is relegated to certain sections of restaurants and allowed in bars in clubs.
"We are part of a trend of cities that are going smoke free," Auerbach said. "All the large cities in California are currently smoke free in all workplaces. New York City is debating virtually an identical regulation to ours."
Some Boston bars are starting a petition drive against the ordinance, but at Whiskey's on Boylston Street, managers said that they have no problem going smoke free, as long as their competitors have to.
Cigar Masters owner Steve Saloman said that he is worried that his cigar bar would go out of business if the ordinance is approved. He spent $300,000 moving his 6-year-old cigar bar to Boylston Street.
"We feel that we fall in a gray area," Saloman said. "Everybody who comes in here is here to smoke, so they're not offending anybody."
The commission said there may be an exemption that would allow Cigar Masters to stay open. A public hearing is set for Wednesday night from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Roxbury Community College. The commission could vote as early as Nov. 6.
Oh, I didn't give you but a smidgen.
There's a LOT more out there.
Now we come back to the topic at hand.
Should a general distaste be enough to BAN or prohibitively tax a product?
Should it be enough to have the government intervene?
Ah, Politically correct, I see.
Well I have been considered to be a thorn to many people for many years because they don't particularly care for the fact that I have been able to keep them from taking over.
Yet I am also considered a pinnacle in many areas for many of those same reasons.
Being a thorn is generally a more necessary position to take when one seeks to maintain the foundations upon which this nation was founded. With out the thorns that were our founding fathers you would probably still be living that simple life of Beowulf you so admire.
Shouldn't even be in the equation for state or federal governments.
If you want to go down to county or municiple I MIGHT be able to see it.
This country is literaly screwed because of marxist leaders teaching in the Universities, libs who want power, and a breakdown of common sense.
Probition of smoking will bring it back as a vogue big time.
She lion, you are one of my heros. Hang in there.
I will answer yours when you answer mine - that is the way the world works.
This country is literaly screwed because of marxist leaders teaching in the Universities, libs who want power, and a breakdown of common sense.
I appreciate your words so very much! And yes, it is very sad in this day when our youth are brain washed and marching lock step, in brown shirts, with the Marxists of today who only want to take down America and it's Freedoms.
Most of us see it. It's no mystery. The schools start with the very young. Brain washing and digging into personal family lives to find out "why" the child isn't progressing. It scares me to live today. But, it's all we have, and I really do love life!
I love people, too. Just the hardheaded ones who refuse to want the same rights extended to us that they are allowed are the ones I go after.
Your my hero, too, oldtimer!
You into whips and chains too?
Your pretty full of yourself, aren't you?
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