'Sober bar' must sell Booze to allow smokers

Edmonton Journal ^ | Friday, August 15, 2003 | Jason Markusoff

[Mears]

What they want to do is socialize and smoke and,other than home,there aren't many places to do that.

[Still Thinking]

Can't they simply offer only Coors Lite at $500 a can? An initial inventory of one six pack should last them a lifetime at that rate.

[Veil Destroyer]

I've been sober almost 3 years, and I quit smoking over a year ago; yet I find it dispicable the way government is trying to play around with regulations to appease the pigs who sue for secondhand smoke damages.

I still go see rock bands all the time in smoke filled bars where there's alcohol, and should I ever start drinking or smoking again, I would want those places to be there for me. And anyone who quits a habit and then tries to force others to quit, is the epitomy of hypocrisy.

With all the smoking bans in bars going on, I predict we will see an increase in house fires from drunk smokers. Who will get sued then? The Bic Lighter company?