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.
From what I have read of your posts.....NO.
This is just too funny, I suggest you read all your own posts again, then come back and tell us about negative tones.
Just too darn funny.
All well and good - and many of us are thrilled with it - however - you seem to be rather picky in your own catching up and taking to ignoring of posts to you. Could that be because you have no answers, or just an unwillingness to attempt a rational discousre??
And you believe it's a good thing to corrupt the definition of a word so it no longer has any real meaning?
People having been smoking for hundreds of years -m it's obviously you.
People make choices whether to smoke or not - it is human nature to make choices about what they choose to do - what more lesson do you need than that?
It matters not to me if they were directed to me, I answered - my questions are still directed to you.
That is a rather juvenile attitude to take.
Most of the negative posts toward you were deserved because of your own negative attitude.
I never took a negative or flaming or insulting attitude toward you - yet you have chosen to ignore much of what I had to say to you.
I can only make the assumption ( I hate assuming anything) that you can not answer any of my questions or refute any of my facts and were not a big enough man to say so. I guess that goes along with your heritage.
I will thank you for showing that you were wrong and most of what you posted was also incorrect.
Isn't this a mess? Boston is so beautiful, and the pubs and clubs are so fine, and they will really suffer. If these prissy nosed a-holes with their anti smoking agenda pass this bill, do you really think they are going to spend their money to pick up the slack from the loss of business?
Heck no! They are too "prissy nosed" to even consider going into a pub or club to begin with. They drink and smoke behind closed doors, and lay down laws that the "lowly" have to live with.
Trouble with me, I can sit here for HOURS working, THINKING, researching with my coffee mug (BIG MUG), and my cigarettes. I am happy as can be...
There really is a lot of good info here, I have learned a lot, so can you, I don't expect it to change your mind but it's still good to look at both sides of the coin.
Welcome to the fray - hang out read and learn some things.
No one is going to make any attempt to try to get you to take up smoking - all we want is the ability to get our side of the story heard.
And it is obvious, based on your post, that we are starting to make a little headway.
Thank you for being big enough to make an apology - you prove there is still hope for the next generation.
MacDorcha!! Thank you SO much! You know you are welcome here with us! Smokers and non-smokers alike. We are all good friends here in trying to keep America Free. You don't have to love smoking in order to do that!
So much hate and bile has been put forth by the anti's against decent people who choose to buy and smoke a legal commodity. So, it's not your fault that you have been brow beaten into thinking it's all true.
I really thank you for giving us a chance to prove the anti's are wrong to you. We have (and do) a lot of research on this smoking and second hand smoke business. Like several articles say "It's All Smoke and Mirrors."
Thanks, MacDorcha! 
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