Posted on 05/21/2006 7:42:17 PM PDT by SheLion
???? Nope. Nor with a translator...
If I only read authors that agreed with me politically, I wouldn't have much to read.
As a former Delaware resident I am tickled pink about that exemption. For one reason and one reason only-----Denis McGlynn of Dover Downs who went to Trenton and lobbied against the exemption because he knows how badly it hurts the slots businesses in Delaware.
Well too bloody bad about poor Denis....he shouldn't have sold out on all the people that were working with him fighting the ban in Delaware.
I don't want to make a big thing out of it, because I don't rent apartments, and I am not in the market. My home has not been smoked in. I agree that soap and paint go a long way, but we may have to agree to disagree on how much smoke permeates the drywall, vents, etc. My parents were very heavy smokers, but both have long since quit (my father gave it up around 15 or so years ago, my mother gave it up when she died at 43 of lung cancer). My sister smokes, but I never took it up. To each his/her own. But you really don't have to be all that sensitive to smell when rooms have been smoked in over a long period of time. Smokers are naturally going to notice it less than non-smokers. I am not judging, just observing. And I believe that it is, or should be, the property owner's call on whether smoking ought to be allowed, whether in an apartment, bar or restaurant. Let the market run things, as it ultimately will.
I can understand why you feel that way.
And that is the gist of the problem - the anti-smokers refuse to permit that to occur.
Please don't get me wrong, I'm on the side of the bar/tavern/restaurant owners that fought the ban. I was just happy to see Denis get slapped after he bailed on us in Delaware.
What we went through in Delaware was down right ugly and Dover Downs was right there in the trenches with the local bars and taverns. The local restaurants had already sold out and so we didn't care about them anymore. But when Denis sold out in late 2003/early 2004...........
I was just commenting that politically he's the embodiment of the philosophy that's made Maine one of the poorest states in the country, his talent at story-telling notwithstanding.
Yours was the last post before FR went down for 3.5 hours- it is your fault that so much work got done this morning. I'd expect a 0.3% uptick in productivity for May.
It's a beautiful state, too. Too bad the commie statists have taken the reins.
I've had a similar effect before, but generally it's just a roomful of people that disappears.....
LOL!
"The landlord has the right to say yes or no to smoking. What is wrong with that concept?"
Absolutely nothing is wrong with the landlord making the call. Of course, that is probably the status quo today. Which makes me wonder why this article was even written or why the involvement of this "coalition."
Of course, it can't be part of any sort of propaganda to change from the status quo.....
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