[Libloather]

It's their job to enforce the ban...

Find a way to bring nuisance charges against the anti-smoking police...

[MarineBrat]

Elliot Ness is after the smoke-easies.

[Man50D]

Next it will be the food police.

[Lexinom]

It’s crap like this that makes me (a non-smoker) want to take up smoking just to shove it in their face.

[GOP_Lady]

There is NO REASON in hell, why there cannot be at least one little bar in the State of Ohio where adults can be adults — NONE! Private clubs are illegal in this nanny-state. Our vets cannot even smoke in their own VFW halls.

[Moonman62]

''Nonsmokers don't go out anyway,'' McFrye said. ''They're the cheapest people breathing air. I've been in business 23 years, and I know there's nothing cheaper than a nonsmoker. I'm really upset with it. I wish the people who voted for it would get cancer, that's how pissed I am about it.''

I can't imagine why non-smokers avoid his place. /s

[kinoxi]

''If they're flagrant and admitting that they're allowing (smoking), basically, we can double the fines,'' said Tuttle, environmental health supervisor for the Summit County Health Department. ''We have the authority to do that.''

Step over the passed out drunk. Meander through the Masses ingesting solvents while stepping on stale snacks and other miscellaneous decaying food-type materials, capture the designated driver smoking a cigarette to keep themselves occupied. Under health code violations.

[GOP_Lady]

Find out about my nanny-state-free turkey (LOL):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927039/posts?page=40#40

[GOP_Lady]

My County Medical Director called this law “ridiculous.”

[Cobra64]

[stylin19a]

turn ‘em all into private clubs...and hire only family.

[GOP_Lady]

In September, I was on an OUTDOOR patio at Tower City (heart of downtown Cleveland). I was with three Army men in uniform who were in town for the West Point game. We were enjoying the beautiful weather, a chat and a smoke. Someone called a Cleveland Police Officer on us. I asked the police officer (who didn’t want to be bothered), “Shouldn’t you be harassing shoplifters or something?”

[traditional1]

" I've been in business 23 years, and I know there's nothing cheaper than a nonsmoker"

LOL.

Yeah, but they frequent your place so they can hassle the smokers!

ROFL

[yorkie]

It’s stories like this that make me glad that Ohio is no longer my home state, and Akron no longer my home town.

(I still remember getting those wonderful Kippy’s hamburgers after church every Sunday - 25 cents. Best hamburger ever made. They closed 28 years ago.)

[weegee]

In Houston the patios/porches of bars are more crowded than the bars themselves. I’ve seen literally a handful of customers inside while there are dozens of drinkers outside with their cigarettes.

It certainly wasn’t put to the public to push through the measure.

The antismoking drinkers wanted it. Why aren’t they at the bars now? Or are they outside too because that is where the crowd is?

I don’t smoke but believe that it should have been up to each business owner and not the city council.

[GOP_Lady]

Editorial: http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=7294732&nav=5UaibWQs

[GOP_Lady]

Oh, isn’t this special ...

http://www.smokechoke.com/

[Bean Counter]

A year or so ago here in Vancouver, Washington, when a similar ban in bars went into effect, with the specific exclusion zone stated as no smoking within 50 feet of the bar, some of the local bar mavens decided on a protest, measured off fifty feet from the front of the building, set up a tent in the middle of the street, and smoked till they were content, (but in reality for about 30 minutes till the Police showed up and politely insisted that they move it).

In any case they made a great point, and got a picture and writeup in the local rag for it. It didn’t accomplish much, but it sure drove home the point about how fascist localities can be with the anti-smoking rules.

I would also point out that Oregon voters just wisely defeated an attempt to tax the hell out of smokers to the tune of another buck a pack, to supposedly finance health care for “our cheeldren...”.

[gidget7]

Sure that’s the ticket. Tie the hands of police officers, do not allow them to effectively fight real crime. They are needed to stop people from smoking that nasty LEGAL product!!

[ari-freedom]

At the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church on Portage Trail in Cuyahoga Falls, business dropped by 25 percent after the smoking ban went into effect, parishioner Matt Pagni said.
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Huck’s policy would result in churches having to close

[Melas]

''Nonsmokers don't go out anyway,'' McFrye said. ''They're the cheapest people breathing air. I've been in business 23 years, and I know there's nothing cheaper than a nonsmoker. I'm really upset with it. I wish the people who voted for it would get cancer, that's how pissed I am about it.''

Wow, can you say issues?