[Chancellor Palpatine]

If you walk into a premises licensed to serve beer but not hard liquor, and break out your bottle of whiskey - a legal product - and start drinking it, the premises has always stood to lose its beer license. If you walk into a strip club in a community where beer and spirits cannot be sold in an adult entertainment establishment and break out your own can of beer, then the establishment is subject to losing its license. In each instance, the product was legally possessed - and this has long been the state of affairs all over the country in terms of how the violations were dealt with.

It isn't a Nazi problem.

[whereasandsoforth]

...and those stupid liquor restrictions are just as Nazi-like as the smoking ban. The only difference is liquor alters mental states (person responsibility) and tobacco does not.

[Clemenza]

I'm still trying to find anyone who has died from "secondhand smoke" in restaurants, bars, etc.

This aint just a Florida problem. Healthfascists deserve a taste of their own medicine. I recommend sending Bloomburg and Pataki a life sentence in a French cafe for passing a law that is killing business in my neighborhood. Here in New York, we still have "corner bars" where people gather to smoke and shoot the sh-t. Thanks to the liberals/RINOs in question, neighborhood institutions that have lasted for decades have closed or are on the verge of closing.

Shouldn't nanny-statists like you be on DU?

[Looking4Truth]

"It isn't a Nazi problem."

Actually it's a private property issue. I don't even want to get in to liquor laws from state to state, but if I own a business and allow smoking it is MY business and not the STATE'S. Let the free market determine if I stay in business or not. That's the real issue IMHO.

[Rebelbase]

Pigs, mud.................

[wireman]

No one is MAKING you walk into any establishment, especially mine.

It should be the choice of the property owner. Since at least 80% of my customers smoke (my wife and I do not), I would choose smoking rather than lose 25% of my business.... Which is exactly what has happened since 07/24/03.

My clothes don't stink anymore, but my business sure does!