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Snuff out do-gooders before cigarettes, please
The Washington Times ^ | 1/12/06 | Tom Knott

Posted on 01/19/2006 4:34:38 PM PST by qam1

Here is a thumbs-down to the Smokefree D.C. do-gooders and the D.C. Council, which voted 11-1 in favor of a smoking ban that begins next year.

I am thinking of starting a Do-Gooder-free D.C. because of the scientifically proven study that shows freedom-hating do-gooders cause high blood pressure in others.

There is nothing like a smug, arrogant, condescending know-it-all to get the eyes rolling up in the back of your head. The city, unfortunately, is awash in this character type.

These self-important nitwits seem to think they know what is best for the masses and then pat themselves on the head after they have achieved their mission.

"It is a great day for everyone who works in or patronizes a bar or restaurant in the District of Columbia," said one of the co-founders of the nut-job group after 11 morally superior council members imposed legislation that mocks the celebrated individual liberties of a nation.

Sorry. It did not come across as a great day. It came across as just another amusing day in the bluest of blue precincts.

Really, I would prefer to have a Carbon Monoxide-Free D.C.
Or a Rat-Free D.C.
Or a Gang-Free D.C.
Or a Lead-Free D.C.
Or a Cholesterol-Free D.C.
Or a Body Odor-Free D.C.
Or an Ice Cream-Free D.C.
Or a Starbucks-Free D.C.

I can think of all kinds of practices and things that could be eliminated before I would be concerned with a smoky bar stuffed with drunks at midnight.

I would argue it is the right of the smoking town drunk to be a smoking town drunk, just as it is the right of servers to work in an establishment that caters to smoking town drunks.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: antismokinggnatzies; freedom; nannystate; pufflist; tomknott
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To: Gabz; winston2
Ah ------- Clean air in restaurants!

FWIW, all the restaurants I have been in here in SE Michigan have smoking sections which successfully accomodate smokers with excellent ventilation systems. I have NEVER been able to detect smoke in the non smoking sections.

But yet you Fers are never satisfied. Got news for you sport, your favorite bar that ultimately succumbs to a smoking ban will be destined to going out of business.

For some reason I suspect that you really don't care because it doesn't concern you. You will merely try to find another bar to drop into once in a while not really giving a ratsass for the neighborhood bars that will also go out of business and that you would never ever think of dropping into.

Kinda like Democraps and their love of flyover country.........Not!

81 posted on 01/19/2006 7:16:54 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I break for pikas, swerve for skunks and accelerate for possum......squirrels are on their own)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Stop spamming the thread.


82 posted on 01/19/2006 7:16:55 PM PST by Zon (Honesty outlives the lie, spin and deception -- It always has -- It always will.)
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To: Hot Tabasco
But yet you Fers are never satisfied. Got news for you sport, your favorite bar that ultimately succumbs to a smoking ban will be destined to going out of business.

Doesn't matter to them, they rarely if ever go to bars and restaurants,

The Anti-smoking Gnatzies like all other Liberals (and that includes the ones that show up here) are in general just miserable little people with miserable little lives, they don't go to restaurants or especially bars because people in there are having fun, and fun is one of the last things they are capable of.

83 posted on 01/19/2006 7:17:15 PM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: The Worthless Miracle
No one I have ever talked to, has EVER supported these measures, yet they always seem to go through...

And none are ever repealed.

84 posted on 01/19/2006 7:17:53 PM PST by MilspecRob (Most people don't act stupid, they really are.)
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To: Hot Tabasco
But yet you Fers are never satisfied. Got news for you sport, your favorite bar that ultimately succumbs to a smoking ban will be destined to going out of business.

Doesn't matter to them, they rarely if ever go to bars and restaurants,

The Anti-smoking Gnatzies like all other Liberals (and that includes the ones that show up here) are in general just miserable little people with miserable little lives, they don't go to restaurants or especially bars because people in there are having fun, and fun is one of the last things they are capable of.

85 posted on 01/19/2006 7:18:48 PM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Zon

Go away troll.


86 posted on 01/19/2006 7:20:01 PM PST by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: eleni121
No person is forced to enter a business or home (private property)  that allows smoking.

Why is it that you support enlisting government agents to act on your behalf to initiate harm/force against innocent people that are minding their own business and have harmed no one?

Is it just that you are ignorant or that you are a parasite? You chose.

87 posted on 01/19/2006 8:32:31 PM PST by Zon (Honesty outlives the lie, spin and deception -- It always has -- It always will.)
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To: Gabz

Yes, but I can dream...can't I? LOL


88 posted on 01/19/2006 9:18:27 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Gabz

Thanks for the ping!


89 posted on 01/19/2006 9:38:04 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: numberonepal
Was smoking alone what was studied or was a specific substance (i.e. tobacco) singled out?

Tobacco...cigarettes.
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90 posted on 01/19/2006 9:50:27 PM PST by mugs99 (Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
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To: winston2

I wish all users of smoke producing substances peace - in privacy.


You mean like a privately owned restaurant or bar?
This has very little to do with smoking, but a freat deal to do with control. There are people out there who think they should be able to tell others how they should live their lives.


91 posted on 01/19/2006 9:56:18 PM PST by Valin (Purple Fingers Rule!)
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To: Gabz

It never ends, does it? These people can't see the truth if it hopped naked alongside the bed with them.


92 posted on 01/19/2006 9:59:18 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (None genuine without my signature)
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To: eleni121; Moonman62; dakine
I'm just curious.

If smoking is so bad, then why isn't the sale and manufacture of it is banned?

If smoking is really as bad as the MSM/liberals/pseudo-FReepers say it is, then the product should be pulled off the market.

93 posted on 01/19/2006 10:05:57 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (None genuine without my signature)
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To: Gabz

Why do people want to ban smoking in places where they don't go?


94 posted on 01/19/2006 10:17:46 PM PST by M0sby (((PROUD WIFE of MSgt Edwards USMC)))
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I don't think that would be practical or safe going by the smoker's rage on these threads.


95 posted on 01/19/2006 11:37:10 PM PST by Moonman62 (Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
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To: elkfersupper; SheLion; Gabz; teenyelliott

I just found out tonight that my brother and his wife both started rolling their own cigarettes. That's the good news.

When I went to my tobacco store yesterday, the owner told me that some asswipe politico in Ohio has introduced a bill to ban smoking in your car. Don't know if he's trying the "for the children" route or the "distraction" (like cell phones) angle. They really want this state to fall bad.


96 posted on 01/20/2006 12:03:23 AM PST by The Foolkiller ( We're only trying to help people make right decisions-with the full force of government, of course.)
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To: nopardons

Therefore, while I used to sympathize with them, as long as my vote counts for anything, marijuana will NEVER be legal in my lifetime.


97 posted on 01/20/2006 12:12:28 AM PST by The Foolkiller ( We're only trying to help people make right decisions-with the full force of government, of course.)
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To: The Foolkiller

And they'll NEVER get my vote, to legalize pot, either; for the same reason.


98 posted on 01/20/2006 12:17:48 AM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

Good. There are MANY rabid-(tobacco)smoker haters on FR who at the same time, think it's great to smoke dope, snort coke, whatever. They don't seem to realize they're losing more support for their cause every day by their attitude toward cig.cigar, or pipe smokers. I haven't met a tobacco user in the last ten years who's for the legalization of any other drug. And the more they crack down on us, the more that attitude's going to grow. They're slitting their own throats & the fools don't even realize it.


99 posted on 01/20/2006 1:06:54 AM PST by The Foolkiller ( We're only trying to help people make right decisions-with the full force of government, of course.)
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To: The Foolkiller
I've been here a long time and during these years, the LEGALIZE DOPE crowd has grown dumber and more hysterical, with every passing hour. The ONLY people who agree with them, are parts of that tiny group and those who wish to be...*for some weird reason or other.

Otherwise, they alienate everyone they come in contact with.

*most often, the weird reason is because the female is having or trying to have a cyber relationship with one or the other in this ever dwindling group; or it's a loner, who is trying to find a friend and anyone will do.

100 posted on 01/20/2006 1:14:33 AM PST by nopardons
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