Posted on 01/19/2008 7:10:50 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084
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We the People Sheeple of the United States Nanny State, in Order to form a more perfect Union Socialist Utopia, establish Justice Socially engineer a country of non smoking, physically fit, tea totallers, insure domestic Tranquility Smoking bans in bars, limits on unhealthy food and social drinking, provide for the common defense Universal Healthcare, promote the general Welfare health of the population whether they like it or not, in order to save above mentioned Universal Healthcare entitlement program from bankruptcy, and secure the Blessings of Liberty Dependency to ourselves progressive liberals and our Posterity Hitler Youth who we brainwash through public school education, do ordain decree and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Nanny State of Liberals.
Seems to me that this fellow has a good case to make in fighting the violation in court. Unless there are signs posted all over every public space in the town, how is a visitor supposed to know that the use of a perfectly legal product is illegal in this place?
At any rate, I would refuse to do business in any municipality that has an anti-smoking ordinance like this . . . so Jon Little should take his money elsewhere the next time he wants to see a movie.
This is just __________ ridiculous. Enough already.
Good evening, Sir Eric. I hope all is well. :-)
Nanny State Ping!
These people just won’t stop, will they?
Alas, there are many here on FR who actually support this kind of nonsense.
Tobacco will soon be illegal. The Mexican gangs will then supply it at a price about 100 times what it now costs. They will make so much money that they can buy tanks and F-15’s and will become the de facto government of Mexico. The War on Drugs, it works every time it’s tried. For the gangsters, that is.
You can’t ignore the law. I’ve had some experience here in the DPRNJ.
Just for kicks and giggles, you can smoke in a bar, get a summons and bank 100% on the fact that the “witness” to the “crime” will not take 6 hours off from her job to show up in court to testify againt you.
Case dismissed.
Of course, you have just wasted 6 hours of your life. Although I was thoroughly entertained for those 6 hours. It was much better than Judge Judy. I had fun.
Exactly. Ban it already. This social engineering and coercion is ridiculous and anathema to a free country.
It is hysteria, plain and simple.
Didn’t the voters of Nevada ban smoking in the casinos recently?
It’s a shame Johnny Carson isn’t around to make “beautiful downtown Burbank” jokes about this anymore, isn’t it?
You would think that by now, someone would have invented a smoking device where no combustion smoke of the tobacco would be released, and the smoker would exhale through the device, which would only put out hot cleaned air. Optimally, they could put several cigarettes worth of tobacco in it.
The idea being that they could prove that there was no second hand smoke, *or* cigarette butts. Then challenge the anti smoking laws on scientific grounds.
Johnny Carson was a smoker. Another premature tobacco related mortality. What was he like 80?
Latest news from Ohio:
Court: Private clubs not exempt from smoking ban
Jump to full article: AP, 2008-01-03
Intro:
State health officials erred when they tried to exempt veterans halls and other private clubs from Ohio’s smoking ban, an appeals court ruled.
“The law, which took effect last year following a statewide vote, prohibits smoking in most public places, including restaurants, bars and offices.
The Ohio 10th District Court of Appeals on Monday upheld an earlier court ruling that said the state Health Department didn’t have authority to write rules exempting private clubs. Such a change would need to be adopted by the state Legislature, the ruling said.
The decision was another victory for the Ohio Licensed Beverage Association, a trade group representing Ohio’s bar owners. The group filed a lawsuit last summer, saying the exemption for private clubs was unfair.”
Google Aria nicotine inhaler.
Why do you think Philip Morris isn’t fighting the bans.
Khrushchev had said, we didn’t have to worry about them attacking us because they wouldn’t have to. He said that we would eventually law ourselves into communism.
Makes me wonder if he was right.
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