Posted on 04/30/2006 12:48:20 PM PDT by SheLion
FRANKFORT, Ky. City leaders in Frankfort are asking restaurants to ban smoking.
The Frankfort city commission adopted a resolution 4-to-one this week that would request restaurants and other businesses that serve food to voluntarily ban smoking.
The resolution is a request and is not enforceable.
The city is studying the need for a smoking ban ordinance.
Commissioner Rodney Williams voted against the measure on Monday, saying he could not vote to ban something that is legal.
Several other Kentucky cities and counties -- including Lexington and Louisville -- have enacted or are considering some form of smoking ban.
Get a program folks!In Kentucky you can't tell the democrats from the republicans.
Wow!
A sensible,market-driven solution to a "problem" that really isn't a problem.
One word simple question:
Why?
FMCDH(BITS)
Well, the most important thing here is: the lawmakers are leaving the smoking bans up to the private businesses!
That is the very best thing to come out of this!
This is how the bans should work. Between the private business owner and his patrons. And not the government.
I was impressed. :)
If you look behind all proposals for smoking bans you will find the federal government extorting local lawmakers by threatening to hold back federal funds for this or that.
The jailed Al Capone for this.
My grandparents are from Elkhorn city, in Pike county. Most of my family is from the south, and like me, they don't like folks meddling in their business. That might be why they approached it from this angle. At least they're not making them ban it, but only time will tell.
Like any business is going to "voluntarily" run off 25% of its business.
The sad thing is it will happen anyway.
Once government bodies start the deliberation, it's over.
It's the "Delphi Method".
(non) Nanny State PING!!!!!!!!!
this is just the way it should be.........leaving it up to the business owners to make the decision.
I am sure there are MANY private establishments in Frankfort that already aare non-smoking, others may or may not follow -- but let the market decide -- not the government.
Folks, what we need to remember is that just because a private business invites certain members of the public through its doors, it is still a private business and not a public place. Another thing everyone needs to remember, no one is required to work anywhere. If you don't like the conditions at your workplace you have 2 choices - work with the employer or find another job.
Exactly.
I have 3 brothers with their families, and my mother, plus numerous cousins in KY and TN. I go down every summer. I love it down there. We were all born and raised in NE, every one of us. The migration south started just about 20 years ago, with more and more family moving there every couple of years.
One goes through culture shock after a visit. Unbelievably so.
Thanks for the ping!
Thanks for the ping!
There are a lot of layers to the smoking bans. Starting with the R.W. Johnson Foundation and huge grant money to each state for controlling and restricting smokers. The more a state controls and restricts and bans smokers, the bigger the grant money the state will receive from the RWJ Foundation.
Sickening.
I was impressed. A lawmaker actually standing up in public and saying what we have been screaming about in here for months! (Do you think he is registered at Free Republic? hehe)
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