[Cagey]

Exotic dancer Natalia Mirasecka of Bordentown, N.J. yells while holding up a protest sign as she and a group of exotic dancers, many from area go-go bars, joined in a demonstration Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006, outside the New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton, N.J., against New Jersey's ban on indoor smoking in public places that will be signed into law on by Gov. Richard J. Codey Sunday

[GoforBroke]

"It‘s going to murder our business,"

Well I don't know about that.

Back in the day (god I feel old) I avoided going to the clubs because my wife would know where I had been due to the smoke that permeated my clothes.

[JimRed]

Horrors! Being forced to choose which addiction to indulge is SO cruel!

[HEY4QDEMS]

featured signs that read "Defy Anti-Smoking Nazis" and "Tobacco Control Is Out of Control."

They forgot "Support Single Mothers" /kidding

[E Rocc]

Makes sense in a way. Government banning things "for our own good" doesn't stop on its own.

-Eric

[Calpernia]

Thread from yesterday:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1556358/posts
Strippers to protest at State House (Smoking Ban in NJ)

[Calpernia]

Age of purchase was raised to 19 y.o. now too.

[twhitak]

"It‘s going to murder our business,"

Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm guessing most people don't go to strip clubs so that they can "light one up."

[DakotaRed]

I wonder if so many FReepers would be so laxidasical about this if, instead of tobacco, it was guns being banned everywhere?

Don't worry, they will be going after them soon enough.

[RockinRight]

So wait...it's OK to get blasted drunk and watch naked women...but SMOKING is so horrible it must be banned?

The government needs to stay the hell out of our lives.