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NAZI MAINE: House gives final OK to smoking ban in bars PUKES ONE AND ALL!
boston.com ^ | 6/3/2003 | Glenn Adams

Posted on 06/04/2003 5:03:23 AM PDT by SheLion

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:10:02 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) Public health interests prevailed over warnings that personal freedoms are being eroded as the Maine House gave its final approval to a bill to ban smoking in bars and taverns.

Representatives' 95-47 enactment vote sent the measure to the Senate and put Maine a step closer to joining California and Delaware in imposing statewide bans on smoking in bars. New York's ban starts in July, and Connecticut's newly enacted ban on smoking in bars takes effect next April.


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TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Culture/Society; Government; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: antismokers; bans; butts; cigarettes; individualliberty; michaeldobbs; niconazis; prohibitionists; pufflist; smoking; smokingban; smokingbans; taxes; tobacco; wodlist
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To: VRWC_minion
Either a smoking ban in the work place should apply to all employees or no employees.

The smoking bans are based on the false assumption that second-hand smoke is harmful.

Universally imposing bans based on junk science and political agendas is an affront to freedom, explaining your smug delight in their spread, lady.

201 posted on 06/04/2003 10:40:21 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: VRWC_minion
"I thougt it was minnie pads and wet wipes. "

I said ONE of the most wanted items. I'm certain it was in the top ten and likely in the top five. And your statement that the military doesn't want smokers is crap. If they didn't want them to smoke they could ban them all from smoking but they don't. Boot Camp, the way I understand it, is about learning discipline and that's likely part of the discipline part.
202 posted on 06/04/2003 10:41:49 AM PDT by honeygrl
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To: honeygrl
No I just need it for the Airbrush dude. I know what I'm getting myself for Daddy day now. Thanks HONEYGRL.
203 posted on 06/04/2003 10:43:46 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Paper or plastic? That is the question.)
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To: Flurry
LOL You're Welcome!
204 posted on 06/04/2003 10:44:55 AM PDT by honeygrl
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To: headsonpikes
I want to make it clear that I absolutely hate smoking. Cigarettes make it hard for me to breathe and I hate breathing smoke. I hate the smell of cigarette smoke on the clothing of smokers and it makes me sneeze.

Having said that, I do not believe it proper for the states or cities to ban smoking altogether. As long as restaurants have sections separated so that I, as a non-smoker, have a place to eat without being bothered by smoke, I am satisfied.

If you smokers want to pollute your bodies with smoke, that is your business. Just don't force your nasty habit on me. I, on the other hand, will not force my non-smoking on you.

205 posted on 06/04/2003 10:47:11 AM PDT by arjay
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To: Protagoras
They are anarchists and libertarians. They use the law--which they created--to control the proles. Fascists use jointed trunchions.
206 posted on 06/04/2003 10:49:16 AM PDT by RightWhale (gazing at shadows)
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To: RightWhale
Come on, RW!

Real libertarians don't give a damn how any adult goes about killing themselves as long as they don't take anybody else with them and the so-called anarchists are a joke!

Organized anarchism?

207 posted on 06/04/2003 10:50:41 AM PDT by metesky (I'm not wearing anything under my clothes.)
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To: Just another Joe
When did this happen? link

Q: What can and can't I send recruits in the mail?

A: According to the rules governing recruit training, the following items are considered to be "contraband" and are prohibited to be sent to recruits:


208 posted on 06/04/2003 10:50:52 AM PDT by VRWC_minion (Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
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To: RightWhale
Maybe you aren't a liar. Maybe you are dumb. Maybe you don't know what a fascist is. Clearly you don't know what a libertarian or anarchist is.
209 posted on 06/04/2003 10:52:07 AM PDT by Protagoras (Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children.)
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To: metesky
The government has not modified my behavior in the least. I continue to smoke at will. I speed, I run red lights, I smoke weed and drink while driving, I jaywalk.

Presently you either don't smoke in schools, airports, planes, public building etc or you don't enter them anymore.

210 posted on 06/04/2003 10:52:12 AM PDT by VRWC_minion (Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
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To: metesky
The poster is deliberately obtuse.
211 posted on 06/04/2003 10:52:55 AM PDT by Protagoras (Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children.)
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To: Madame Dufarge
Universally imposing bans based on junk science and political agendas

Who needs Big Brother when you have The Law? BTW, your observation is dead on.

212 posted on 06/04/2003 10:53:03 AM PDT by RightWhale (gazing at shadows)
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To: metesky
You 'ougnt not use foreign words, nor large words, nor complex sentences conveying subltle ideas with VRWC. Small words, short sentences, repeated often works best with the doomed inhabitants of the Bell Curve’s left side.


213 posted on 06/04/2003 10:53:30 AM PDT by Leisler (So You're A Feminist......How Cute!)
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To: arjay
Just don't force your nasty habit on me. I, on the other hand, will not force my non-smoking on you.

That is all we ask. Seperate accomodations is a fine way to deal with it.
Let the property owner decide.
We don't really care if a property owner decides to go non-smoking, as long as it's the property owners decision.

214 posted on 06/04/2003 10:54:43 AM PDT by Just another Joe (FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: Just another Joe
The argument that you have already conceded is the one about whether SHS (ETS) is harmful.

Rifts, there is no argument here. The smokers current points including private property rights is getting creamed in the political arena. 2 to 1 loss is about as bad as anything that could occur.

As for the SHS subject, the politicians are using it to cover the employees on bars and restaurants to trump private property rights and its working.

As for my viewits not that SHS is dangerous or not its just that the laws for business owners should be uniform.

215 posted on 06/04/2003 10:55:31 AM PDT by VRWC_minion (Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
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To: VRWC_minion
A: According to the rules governing recruit training, the following items are considered to be "contraband" and are prohibited to be sent to recruits:

Don't try to lie. Tobacco products cannot be sent to a recruit.
That doesn't mean they can't buy them in the base PX and doesn't mean they can't smoke them when the CC says, "Smoke 'em if you got 'em."

216 posted on 06/04/2003 10:57:04 AM PDT by Just another Joe (FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: honeygrl
If they didn't want them to smoke they could ban them all from smoking but they don't.

Boot camp is three months. If they wanted them to smoke they would allow it during their free time. If banning it from boot camp isn't a hint that they don't want that behvior I don't know what is a hint.

217 posted on 06/04/2003 10:57:20 AM PDT by VRWC_minion (Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
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To: RightWhale
Libertarians use the law to control the working class?

" Libertarian \Lib`er*ta"ri*an\ (-t[=a]"r[i^]*an), a. [See
Liberty.]
Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as
opposed to the doctrine of necessity."

I'm not libertarian (yet)but I wasn't sure you actually knew what the word meant the way you used it. I've met quite a few libertarians on this board and they are far from anarchists.
218 posted on 06/04/2003 10:57:37 AM PDT by honeygrl
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To: VRWC_minion
Are you f*cking dense?
219 posted on 06/04/2003 10:58:12 AM PDT by metesky (I'm not wearing anything under my clothes.)
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To: Just another Joe
That doesn't mean they can't buy them in the base PX and doesn't mean they can't smoke them when the CC says, "Smoke 'em if you got 'em."

Not true. My son is presently in boot camp. No smoking is allowed.

220 posted on 06/04/2003 10:58:35 AM PDT by VRWC_minion (Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
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