We have the same thing going on in the Columbus area. The ban passed last year, and now all the suburbs are having their own little votes set up. I am a non-smoker who really hates to breathe in cigarette smoke, but I still plan to vote against the ban. I think this has less to do with clean air than it does to keep regulating what people should be able to figure out for themselves.
Remind me to plan the annual Chicago boondogle with my extended group of friends to another city. We can spend our disposable cash somewhere else! I hope many other folks do the same.
Quite unbelievable for an "old" European that there is something like a "smoke ban". Really a different world. As an non-smoking architekt I had to share my office with colleagues who smoked about 40 to 50 (meanwhile banned because of their high nicotin-rate) French cigarettes. Nobody asked me if I tolerate that or not. I have to say that it was my own decision to work there. Therefore I had no problem with all that smoke although I would not tolerate it today. In the meantime I am my own boss anyway and I have nobody to ask.
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Too much common sense, although common sense seems to be in short supply these days.
Although I try to avoid blanket indictments, it's becoming more true everyday that when democrats are in charge, your liberty will be taken away. They have completely embraced the fascist tenet that government should control private property for the Marxist "common good." Where the notion came from that a private business is public property I can't find. It's something that seeped up from the communist sewer and is now embraced by majorities in areas controlled by democrats.
The rat party has become dangerous and needs to be confronted.
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What happened to the USA where people minded their own business and didn't feel the need to regulate what everyone else does?
*sigh*