[gondramB]

I would guess they exempted the casinos because of the tremendous amount of money involved.

I completely support people's right to smoke. I'm not even sure it should be age limited. But they don't have any right to get their smoke on other people. They can smoke all they want in their homes but public spaces need to be smoke free.

The latest problem is smokers congregating at the entrances of non-smoking buildings. It makes it impossible to go in or out without getting smoke on you.

If you can't go all day without a drink, you have a problem. If you can't go all day without smoking, you have a problem too - a medical problem - you are a drug addict and it's not the job of non-addicts to endure your substance on their clothes and hair so you can indulge your addiction.

[SheLion]

I completely support people's right to smoke. I'm not even sure it should be age limited. But they don't have any right to get their smoke on other people. They can smoke all they want in their homes but public spaces need to be smoke free.

You are WRONG!  A private business owner should HAVE the right to allow smoking or not, depending on his patrons.  And NOT the governments intrusion.

The latest problem is smokers congregating at the entrances of non-smoking buildings. It makes it impossible to go in or out without getting smoke on you.

Listen, it was the professional anti-smokers and people like you who kicked smokers out into the streets.  Until then, we had smoking rooms and lounges out of the fray of the traffic.  Now, some places are even kicking smokers 25 feet away from the buildings.  This is WRONG!

If you can't go all day without a drink, you have a problem. If you can't go all day without smoking, you have a problem too - a medical problem - you are a drug addict and it's not the job of non-addicts to endure your substance on their clothes and hair so you can indulge your addiction.

And I could care less what you think about "my problem."  None of your business!!  You think I am a drug addict and I think you are a busy body who wants the world to rotate on your azz.  WRONG!  If you don't want to be around smokers, STAY OUT!  Leave this decision up to the private business owners!

And don't forget: CIGARETTES ARE A LEGAL COMMODITY!

[Bogey]

I completely support people's right to smoke. I'm not even sure it should be age limited. But they don't have any right to get their smoke on other people. They can smoke all they want in their homes but public spaces need to be smoke free.

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We'll smoke at home, when you start driving in your house.
You have no right to spew your exhaust in peoples faces.
Restaurants are private, the streets are PUBLIC.

PHYSICIAN TESTIFIES IN SUPPORT OF ZEV PROGRAM AT AIR RESOURCES BOARD HEARING
As local resolutions and letters of support continue flowing in from across the state, Los Angeles emergency room physician and specialist in sports medicine will testify September 7 before the Air Resources Board (ARB) in support of the state's ZEV requirements. Dr. Eric Sletten takes the train from his home in Ventura County and then rides a bicycle to his office at Cal State Northridge. Dr. Sletten emphasizes however, that he is not anti-car, and in fact owns two classic cars that he drives recreationally. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley and recalls frequent smog alerts that restricted activities and caused coughing and pain from simply taking a deep breath.

In testifying on behalf of the American Lung Association of California and its medical section, the California Thoracic Society, Dr. Sletten calls on the state to provide leadership in addressing the health concerns caused by California's addiction to gasoline. Dr. Sletten describes health impacts from gasoline vehicles, including reduction in lung function and lung tissue damage, exacerbation of lung disease including asthma and emphysema, and various forms of cancer. Air pollution particularly impacts the elderly, infants and children, and those already suffering from lung disease.

VEHICLE EMISSIONS BLAMED FOR 20,000 DEATHS A YEAR IN 3 EUROPEANCOUNTRIES; CALIFORNIANS WORRIED ABOUT LINK BETWEEN ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH

Contact: Andrew Weisser (818) 703-6444, aweisser@earthlink.net
or your local American Lung Association at (800) LUNG-USA www.californialung.org

[Publius6961]

It makes it impossible to go in or out without getting smoke on you.

This is neurosis writ large.
Why do you not smell like gasoline when you walk in traffic?
Why do you not smell like fish when you go to the market?

Are you suggesting now that transferring an unwanted odor is a crime? If I hate your perfume am I entitled to have you arrested?

[AFreeBird]

The latest problem is smokers congregating at the entrances of non-smoking buildings. It makes it impossible to go in or out without getting smoke on you.

You know, I used to work for a comany that had a smoking lounge, complete with its own seperate air system. Some smoke nazi that worked there got management to remove the lounge and relegated all the smokers to the entrances where all the busy bodies complained that the were having to walk through smoke.

So lets recap here, shall we?

Company had an enclosed lounge (not big mind you) where smokers could go to light up indoors, with tables and chairs; workers who smoked could take their laptop, work related reading material, cup of coffee, and have a smoke and BE PRODUCTIVE at the same time! WOW! Nobody entering the building has to walk through smoke! What a concept!

Idiot non smoker comes along and eliminates the lounge; all smokers must now get on elevator, go down to first floor, out the entrance doors and have a smoke. NOT PRODUCTIVE AT ALL, and of course all the busybody non-smokers NOW HAVE TO WALK THROUGH SMOKE to enter the building.

Just one of those things that make you go: Hmmmmmmm....