Posted on 12/06/2005 5:14:35 PM PST by Crackingham
Aldermen reached a tentative agreement today on an ordinance that would make virtually all indoor public places smoke-free, but would give drinking establishments up to three years to comply with the law. Final language of the accord was being fashioned this afternoon as some aldermen sought a two-year deadline for full compliance. The full City Council is expected to vote on the compromise measure Wednesday.
Ald. Patrick O'Connor (40th) said aldermen wanted to resolve the controversy "in a way that was amicable, and it was getting pretty ugly around here the last couple of weeks."
"Ultimately, people knew we had to do something, and that pointed it toward making some peace," O'Connor said.
Ald. Burton Natarus (42nd), who had sought an exemption for taverns and separate bars in restaurants, expressed satisfaction with today's accord and said restaurant industry representatives were on board.
Joel Africk, chief executive officer of the American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago--an organization that had pushed for a smoking ban without exemptions--said he did not yet know if his group would support the compromise.
"It's tough for us to accept three years' more exposure to second-hand smoke," Africk said.
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Wonderful. All 110 dining establishments, along with any others, can ban smoking all by themselves, without help from the government.
to paraphrase Eddie Izzard, "They've banned smoking in bars, and soon there will be no drinking and no talking"...
Newspeak at its finest!
You see, in the leftist lexicon "compromise" is doing exactly what they desire. Pretty sad.
What is the true purpose behind these widespread smoking bans? Are that many people really against smoking? I personally think it is just another scheme to aclimate us to accepting government control over even the smallest personal aspects of our lives.
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I see a lot of bars going out of business in Chicago!
Chicago restaurants and other indoor places would go cold-turkey, while taverns and walled-off bars attached to restaurants would get two or three years to kick the smoking habit under a compromise hammered out today with a nudge from Mayor Daley
So-three years' delay of what they demanded in the first place is -Compromise. I guess we'd better revise all our dictionaries.
The faux "chew and screw" franchises love this stuff as it drives the Mom and Pop neighborhood bars out of business.
It's also a form of back door prohibition which is why MADD is aboard with it.
It's just terribly depressing. Cigarettes are the only legal commodity that I know of, where we can buy but made to feel like criminals because we use it. :(
If you feel like a criminal, you're doing it wrong, SL. Be liberated: Feel like an outlaw.
What you said.
You've nailed it............the big boys can handle the hit on the bottom line, the little places can't.
If going smoke-free is so good for business, why don't they just do it? Why do they insist on forcing it upon EVERYONE else?
Read how much smokers are contributing to their state economy. And some have the nerve to say smokers are the reason for higher health costs. Read this and know the truth.
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"Wonderful. All 110 dining establishments, along with any others, can ban smoking all by themselves, without help from the government."
They know that it would kill their business. They need to have their preferences dictated by government force to ensure the market demands are not met. You know, the ole "level the playing field" argument.
If you feel like a criminal, you're doing it wrong, SL. Be liberated: Feel like an outlaw.
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