Poll: Two-thirds of Wyoming voters support statewide smoking ban

casper star tribune ^ | 10/20/07 | N/A

[Dutch Boy]

I have always wondered what would happen if all the tobacco companies just stopped producing cigarettes prior to the big shakedown. Congress would have collectively crapped their pants when billions of tax dollars instantly dry up almost overnight. Even if they continued to pay the farmers and workers full price it would be cheap that the scam fines they got.

[mylife]

I wish they would.

I’ll just grow my own

[Cementjungle]

believe the right of customers and employees to breathe clean air outweighs smokers' right to light up indoors

Will they also ban office buildings with toxic synthetic materials in them, or polluting cars and trucks?

[Dutch Boy]

I think it would only last a few weeks and the government would find all sorts of positive things about tobacco.

BTW - Is it illegal to grow home use tobacco or is it a climate restrictive crop?

[Eastbound]

Good quote, RKV.

[Eastbound]

(Grin)

I've been smoking for a long, long time and have never been bothered with menopause.

[Snoopers-868th]

ALL states, and cities who ban smoking should not be allowed to collect taxes from cigarette sales.

I say we start campaigning for just that. :)

[MaxMax]

BTW - Is it illegal to grow home use tobacco or is it a climate restrictive crop?

It's legal and easy. I was planning a small crop this year but
didn't get around to it. Seeds are sold online.

How long until they try taxing home growers?

[Gabz]

The American Cancer Society and the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, a national group that supports smoke-free legislation, also helped pay for the poll.

This of course is a totally UNbiased poll....NOT.

Nanny State Ping.

[Gabz]

Sounds an awful lot like “keep polling until you get the answer you want”

They use the exact same tactic in every state. In Delaware, a state with a population of less than 1 million, they polled 700 people. Amazingly, 700 was exactly the same number they used in Pennsylvania, New York and several other states with populations of many magnitudes larger than Delaware, yet claimed they were just as valid..........

[Gabz]

I'm from NY - we did it nearly first. now all they do is whine about not getting enough 'cig taxes' "for the children"

I'm originally from NYC, but was unfortunate enough to be a Delawarean when they did it (before NY and just like NY, DE continues to whine about not enough cig taxes. IDIOTS.

Now I'm a Virginian and am trying to keep it from happening here.

[Gabz]

It is a state-wide smoking ban for public indoor places such as resturants, bars and a few other venues.

It is not even that. It is a statewide ban for indoor PRIVATE property. Indoor public places are government controlled buildings, not privately owned buildings.

[DoughtyOne]

Yes, I believe you are correct. These are places where the public congregates, but they are privately owned enterprises.

[Wheee The People]

“This of course is a totally UNbiased poll....NOT”

It’s just a poll, take it however you want...Here are some results that you can’t dismiss so easily...The following is the percentage of people who favor bans on smoking in recent elections:

Ohio 58%
Washington 63%
Arizona 54%
Nevada 53%
Florida 71%

Feel free to look up the percentages where the legislature passed the ban.

[Gabz]

That’s the thing that bugs me about these “polls.” They never make the distinction, thus blurring the fact that the proponents of these laws are actually looking to turn private property into “public” property.

I have long contended that if tobacco is so “deadly” it should be placed on the forbidden list of controlled substances. But guess who the major OPPONENTS of such a proposal are? If you guessed those proposing the smoking (actually smoker) bans, you would be correct. They rely too much on tobacco tax revenue to pad their pockets to consider such a solution.

[Gabz]

Just like those who conducted the poll, you are only touting the results because they agree with your agenda. The polls/studies/surveys/whatever that do not agree with the pre-ordained outcome never see the light of day.

Look at the wording of the questions in this “poll,” and tell me it is not weighted to get a specific predetermined percentage.

The same people do the same “poll” in whatever state and tend to claim similar results regardless of locale. There is no proof of the claims, just a one-sided press release issued.

Would you so blithely go along with the results of a CAIR funded “poll” that claimed “2/3 of the population of the state of X did not believe Islamics wished to kill Americans?” Or a La Raza funded poll that claimed “ 2/3 of the population of the State of X was in favor of illegals being given amnesty?”

I have to say you would, given your obvious acceptance of these results of”polls” funded by groups that stand to financially benefit from legislation based upon thier “polls.”

[theymakemesick]

How will they pay for healthcare?

[traviskicks]

thanks for the ping, i believe a similar story was posted some time ago tho, pretty amazing that 2/3rds of people belive this...

[George W. Bush]

Personnally, I’m for no smoking in eating establishments but there should be NO ban all other places. I bugs the hell out of me when someone smokes next to where I am eating. It’s just common decency and common courtesy NOT to smoke around people who are eating. My opinion for what it’s worth.

I agree. I'm a smoker but I really get annoyed if someone lights up while I'm still eating.

Proper smoking etiquette is that you don't light up until after all others have finished eating. And that will rarely happen in a restaurant unless it's mid-afternoon in a small town or something.

There is something about the smell of tobacco that inhibits appetite for many people. I lose all interest in food, even food I'm enjoying, if I so much as smell burning tobacco. It doesn't make me want to light up. It just annoys me.

[George W. Bush]

BTW, Montana just enacted a smoking ban indoors. Must be something to go outside in below zero weather to have a smoke!

I've lived in MT and WY. I'm not one bit surprised that either would ban smoking.

Now, ban chewing tobacco and we're talking armed insurrection.