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Smoking in Big Easy bars, gambling halls to end in April
ap ^ | January 30, 2015 | CAIN BURDEAU

Posted on 01/30/2015 6:10:50 PM PST by Drango

Edited on 01/30/2015 6:35:51 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

NEW ORLEANS

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"...a city known for its libertine ways."

Note to self...book vacation to New Orleans

1 posted on 01/30/2015 6:10:50 PM PST by Drango
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To: Drango

On New Years, our routine in the French Quarter was to each have a fifth of Jim Beam with us as we hit the bars, we would tuck the neck into our belt and drink the Beam in between bar visits.


2 posted on 01/30/2015 6:14:36 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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To: Drango

There is no such thing as a free country where you can’t have a cigarette with your coffee after your meal.


3 posted on 01/30/2015 6:19:03 PM PST by marron
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To: Drango

Our time will be known as the Age of Tyrants. And it will be well named.


4 posted on 01/30/2015 6:21:11 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: marron

More nanny state crap. Let the bars and restaurants make up their own minds on this issue. If a bar/restaurant decides to allow smoking, non smokers can go somewhere else.

I’m sure there would be enough tree hugging bar/restaurant owners to satisfy the non smokers.


5 posted on 01/30/2015 6:26:38 PM PST by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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To: marron

I agree. There is no freedom in addiction.


6 posted on 01/30/2015 6:27:11 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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“wants to protect the health of wait staff, bartenders, musicians ...”

Yeah, collecting unemployment is great for one’s health.


7 posted on 01/30/2015 6:27:31 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: doc1019
I’m sure there would be enough tree hugging bar/restaurant owners to satisfy the non smokers.

We'll never know because the scumbags don't want anyone to have that choice.
8 posted on 01/30/2015 6:27:51 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: cripplecreek

scumbags = BINGO!


9 posted on 01/30/2015 6:30:07 PM PST by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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To: Drango
There is no freedom in addiction.

Therefore, for your own good, we forbid you from smoking.

10 posted on 01/30/2015 6:31:58 PM PST by webheart (We are all pretty much living in a fiction.)
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To: marron

Yeah....lol...I stopped flying commercial when they banned smoking on airplanes...

I certainly don’t need to smoke when eating, but the bar ban has caused me to drink at home.

They won’t get my business and if they don’t miss it, I really don’t care. I only go to places and do things where I am comfortable. If I am not, I just don’t do that..


11 posted on 01/30/2015 6:32:01 PM PST by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: doc1019

That’s one of the nice things about Detroit. It may be illegal to smoke in bars but most of the local bar owners ignore the law and the police don’t waste time enforcing it.


12 posted on 01/30/2015 6:32:41 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Drango

Another Landrieu destined for an abrupt finale to a political career.

Those folks in NOLA, IF they are like those I know don’t take kindly to anybody messin’ with their freedoms.


13 posted on 01/30/2015 6:32:45 PM PST by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: marron
There is no such thing as a free country where you can’t have a cigarette with your coffee after your meal.

Agreed. This is all NAZI crap and the left is just eating it up.

14 posted on 01/30/2015 6:34:20 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: cripplecreek

The smoking ban killed many NJ bars; there were a few that ignored it, and I don’t think there were any consequences. As one barmaid said when I was stepping out one night to have a smoke (I didn’t want them to get a fine on my account): “The Board of Health works nine to five”. At that point I realized that they had ashtrays all along the bar...

I actually don’t have a problem with the ban in public places (including bars open to the public), but private clubs should have been exempt.


15 posted on 01/30/2015 6:36:22 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Cold Heat

I don’t smoke or drink but I’m a guerrilla capitalist and love to see these behavior control laws flouted at every opportunity.


16 posted on 01/30/2015 6:36:54 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: cripplecreek

Quit cold turkey in March of ‘86.
It took a full five years to quit reaching for one in my shirt pocket...


17 posted on 01/30/2015 6:38:08 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Drango
Sounds like they have Stanford douchebags, too.
18 posted on 01/30/2015 6:40:09 PM PST by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: Cold Heat
...I stopped flying commercial when they banned smoking on airplanes...

Good, thank you. What is it about your addiction that makes you think other passengers wanted to suffer your second hand smoke?

19 posted on 01/30/2015 6:40:28 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: cripplecreek

Yeah....

I wish and hope that we can exhibit the same sort of resistance to the federal government at the State level.

I think it’s about that time to do it again...

If you look hard you can see signs of federalism returning as the result of Barry-O.


20 posted on 01/30/2015 6:42:46 PM PST by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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