NAZI MAINE: House gives final OK to smoking ban in bars PUKES ONE AND ALL!

boston.com ^ | 6/3/2003 | Glenn Adams

[SheLion]

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.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I'd like to be a doctor but I can't stand to be around sick people. Let's ban sick people and more of us will pursue the medical trade.

[metesky]

Nice to know that you're so smug about the seizure of private property and the busting of businesses.

But then smugness is you in a nutshell.

[VRWC_minion]

Perhaps the over 10% of the people with respiratory disorders (like mine) may make up for the number who will refuse to go to a bar or restaraunt if they can't smoke at the table.

Maybe not. A significant number of heavy drinkers are also smokers. The obsessive compulsive behaviors manifest themselves along several outlets.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Sorry I was too nice. Drop dead : )

[SheLion]

Well, well; the chickens are coming home to roost. All progressive democrat (communists) are alike. This is the result of liberalism; first they destroyed the public schools and universities and brainwashed America's youth, now they move on to controlling the adults and worker's of America.

There is, in my honest opinion, something growing in the underbelly of America that is going to suck all of us American's under. 

[VRWC_minion]

But then smugness is you in a nutshell.

I do have a message that has the ability to stop this but smokers don't want to here they are part of the problem. Again, if they became as considerate as the average pipe and cigar smoker these bans would be much harder to push. Its their only hope. But, so far based on the reaction I get smokers are too self absorbed in their habit to realize that their smoke is really offensive and they will continue to be their own worst enemy.

[SheLion]

Sorry Shelion but this Smoke Nazi victory makes me madder than heck.

Makes YOU MAD?  It is tearing my gut out.  They anti everything is just using tobacco to control the 2/3rds of the people who smoke in each state.  They succeed with this, then they will go on to another group of people to control!

Like SUV's.............Obesity.............the list goes on and on.  There is always one group of people who want to control another group of people and form the world in the way THEY want to.  I am pretty sure a Civil War in America is not to far away at this point.

Americans are waking up.  American's are now seeing that this smoking control and tobacco control is one way of brow beating a group of people who choose to smoke a legal commodity.  If tobacco is so deadly, WHY didn't they ban it years ago.

This is all bull chit!

[metesky]

Disingenuousness again rears it's ugly head.

Smokers and non-smokers have been separated for years in bars and taverns, minion. It is the non-smokers who come into smoking sections and then complain about the smoke. I know and you know it.

This courtesy argument started long ago and it seems to be a one-way street as far as non-smokers go.

[SheLion]

then what about the lack of security at our borders??

Don't even get me started on border patrols!  We ALL know there IS no border control!

[SheLion]

Get a LIFE, Leila Prissy! Mind your own business. Sing in a bar? A LAWMAKER? My goodness! Ain't we doing your ilk proud!!!

[Vaduz]

I find it very strange that states want to ban smoking in bars for fear of causing someone to become ill yet the same people are willing to allow people with AIDS be allowed to prepair your food and operate on you yes they care about our health?or how about people who work in fast food joints with TB?see california stats.

[SheLion]

Instead, it, the government, is completely ignorant of what an addiction this is for some people. They think outlawing smoking will stop smoking and there is nothing anywhere to support that.

I lost my husband in January. It didn't make one damn difference if he ever smoked or not. He's gone.......not one of us is going to get out of this world alive.

It's all about control. I am convinced of it.

[Just another Joe]

And you are your worst enemy, minion, but you don't want to see it.
You hate tobacco smoke more than you love freedom.

[Conspiracy Guy]

We need to design a flag for smokers to rally around. The Alabama flag with the red cross replaced by two burning cigarettes might work, (anybody photo shop?) Across the bottom the words "God I Miss Freedom".

[Conspiracy Guy]

Xactly.

[blackdog]

It's important legislation. We need our alchoholics dying of liver failure to not have complications due to emphyzema, lung cancer, or heart failure due to the evils of smoking.

Just too damn funny! If anyone wants proof that we are a society with no real problems to worry about, just consider what your legislators are busying themselves with?

Pathetic!

[Conspiracy Guy]

I won't mince words today. STUFF IT UP YOUR SELF-RIGHTEOUS BUTT.

[honeygrl]

''We're tired of working in an environment that is not safe or healthy,'' said Rep. Leila Percy, a Phippsburg Democrat who works as a singer and bandleader in the haze of clubs that serve alcohol. So one of their Reps is a nightclub act? Maybe she was too hung over to think straight when she made this statement.

[blackdog]

Government does not "care" about anything. They legislate, judiciate, and blow $hit up. To imply they "care" about anything is like suggesting that my bank "cares" about it's customers.

She Lion is correct. It's all about power. I suspect that the tobacco banning is really a trial balloon for a bigger and equally passionate topics called gun confiscation and property confiscation.

If the tobacco wars go off without a bloodbath, expect your guns to be next, then in a Zimbabwe-like land reform act, you will be thrown from your home to make room for those in power to hand over your assets to their flying monkeys.

[Commiewatcher]

"We're tired of working in an environment that is not safe or healthy," said Rep. Leila Percy, a Phippsburg Democrat who works as a singer and bandleader in the haze of clubs that serve alcohol."

Well Leila you probably won't have a job singing anymore soon so you won't have to worry about it.