[SheLion]

[SheLion]

[Millee]

Good for them! I'm not a smoker, but I don't support the smoking bans. Let the businesses decide.

[flashbunny]

“People are sitting in here and they are staying,” Picarillo said. She called the law inconsistent, particularly with the exemption for casinos.

“If it’s a health issue, why aren’t they protecting them?” Picarillo asked.

I think it might have something to do with all the money the casinos throw around. Call me crazy.

Hey Diana, does this remind you of the behavior of a certain Governor? :)

[CindyDawg]

Good luck. I don't know if they can win or not because the government can get to them in so many other ways. It might have been better to join together and shut down until addressed.

[Rudder]

Since Ohio's state-wide smoking ban went into effect this December, there are many bars and other businesses (tobacco stores) that openly defy the ban. I went to the tobacco store yesterday and even the clerks were smoking. Then, I went to my watering hole, and all the customers and bartenders were smoking.

[TheSpottedOwl]

These idiots just refuse to realize that this affects the tax base of their community. Oh wait, they'll just hike the taxes on cigarettes! I'm glad I can't afford to go to bars these days.

[x1stcav]

I've never smoked but I wish them success. If I find a bar too smokey I go somewhere else.

[GOP_Lady]

I'm sending this man $5 to help pay the fines and to help him and his wife give themselves a paycheck!

[Mr J]

"The businesses will go to court to fight tickets they are issued for violating the smoking ban and use the fund to pay fines, Hicks said. The fines are $200 for a first offense, $300 for a second and $500 for any others written within a year."

Well, if the penalty is limited to fines, then the bar should charge a "smoking tax" on sales, large enough to cover the fines. The bar could name the tax after a noteable local anti-smoking politician -- could be useful in advertising as well.

All IMO.

[Hot Tabasco]

Several Colorado Springs bar owners are rebelling

'bout damn time! If I lived out there I would go out of my way to spend more time in their bars just to support their cause......

[free from tyranny]

Here in Allegheny County, home to dem Stillers, The dems enacted a leftist purge of the smoker's pub and every other indoor location, while somehow exempting the not too soon to open slots casinos.

The stench of much more than smoke wafts through what used to be the "land of the free..."

[BluH2o]

She called the law inconsistent, particularly with the exemption for casinos.
“If it’s a health issue, why aren’t they protecting them?” Picarillo asked.

That's easy ... Casinos are heavily taxed, and have lobbyists who grease a lot of political palms at the local and state level.

[TigersEye]

Rep. Michael Merrifield, D-Colorado Springs, a supporter of the ban, called the protest “pretty much useless.”

“Civil disobedience has been used for much greater causes,” he said Wednesday. Business owners who have lost business because of the smoking ban “should look at ways to appeal to nonsmokers.”

IOWs "F you, you peons. I know what's best."

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[nimbuscloud]

This is great! I hope this spirit spreads across the entire country!

[nickcarraway]

The Denver Tea Party

(I know this isn't Denver, but the syllables work out better)

[ChessExpert]

I like the sign.

Besides carbon monoxide, CO, may be part of smoke.

[maryz]

Business owners who have lost business because of the smoking ban “should look at ways to appeal to nonsmokers.”

Huh? I thought being non-smoking would appeal to nonsmokers. What else do they have in common?