Across Pennsylvania, smoking ban becomes law

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | September 11, 2008

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Pennsylvania's statewide smoking ban, 15 years in the making in Harrisburg, became law today.

Cindy Thomas, executive director of Tobacco Free Allegheny, has provided answers to these questions about the new law, which bans smoking in most public places and is aimed at making the state's workplaces smoke-free.

What penalties does a person face if he or she is caught smoking in a place where smoking is prohibited?

The Clean Indoor Air Act provides for the following penalties:

The owner, operator or manager of the premises may be penalized for failure to post proper signs. Each offense can bring a fine of $250 to $1,000.

[Red in Blue PA]

Ahhhh, the nanny state. Thanks Fast Eddie.

[Natchez Hawk]

All those citizen sheep who support the Jihad on drugs—

your chickens have come home to roost.

[unixfox]

Enjoy your freedom PA, what’s left of it.

[4yearlurker]

Here in PA. the sheeple love to vote in Democrats who in turn raise taxes and fees while whittling away at your liberties and freedoms. And they don't even know why!!

Enjoy!

[Red Badger]

You’ll get used to it. We’ve had this in Florida for over a decade................No smoking indoors, period, pretty much well covers it......

[basil]

Looks like we are no longer the “Land of the free and the home of the brave”. Funny thing is, I'd wager that there are some freepers who support this. We have become so inured to living in a nanny state that too many of us accept it without question.

[patton]

Ping.

[Joe 6-pack]

Pennsylvania tyrants celebrate 9/11 by implementing Taliban-style morality. (I'm home in PA as I type this.)

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

~ C.S. Lewis ~

[Huck]

My smoke’s been banned everywhere for decades. Even in my own home. Let the cig smokers whine. Welcome to reality.

[just me]

When people quit smoking, what will they tax excessively next to make up the difference?

[Natchez Hawk]

Friend, you said it better than I could...

Uncle Sam step-off of the grass!

[al baby]

Air

[Gabz]

Nanny State PING!!!!!!!!!

[jnsun]

- We have become so inured to living in a nanny state that too many of us accept it without question.

There's the story about Lafayette, who during the French Revolution sprung the door of the Bastille to let out the political prisoners. Once out, the old men looked around, shied from the light, and slowly went right back to the cell, security's stranglehold.

America - a nation of tired, expended spirit, and the youth without a clue.

[Just another Joe]

Welcome to Amreika.
Where TRUE democracy means the tyranny of the majority.

[Calpernia]

twinkies

[libertarian27]

Looks like we are no longer the “Land of the free and the home of the brave”.

hence my tagline

It's a sad day again for business owners losing yet another right to run their businesses the way they want and cater to the people they wish

[Diamond]

You.

Cordially,

[GOP_Lady]

Hi, Gabz! Very nice to see you again, my dear. I hope all is well with you and yours.

I went to a casino is Erie yesterday. I asked them which 25% of the casino floor will be for smoking. Of course, it's the section which I never play.

It's a shame that they can't even allow one place where adults can be adults, especially when they have air filtration systems.