These restaurants obviously haven't read the 3rd and 4th articles in the penumbra constitution:
#3) All your private property belongs to us.
#4) All pigs are created equal, but some pigs are more equal.
Article [V.]
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Hopefully they can prove Rhode Island has unjustly taken their private property.
They have morphed into a clique which has kidnapped our freedoms one by one.....tort lawyers destroying ligitimate businesses, judges executing the innocent, and other situations such as this where nuisance laws destroy our freedom of choice.
Lawyers, from their perches, decide for us whether and where to smoke and intrude into every other part of our daily lives on the pretext of helping society.
A pox on the legal profession!
The nitwits are going in the wrong direction. They should be sueing to overturn the ban completely not to widen it. What dopes.
Here we go, yet again! The government controlling private property use! When will it end. A Boston-like "tobacco party"! It's time for some civil disobedience. The cigarette nazi's must be stopped.
One law for thee and one law for me. (Meaning the state)
The serfs are getting restless.
How much is a guillotine?
This statement right here tells me everything I need to know about their so-called anti-smoking crusade...only if it's gonna bring them revenue are they really interested in doing it. Heaven forbid the casinos (which no doubt bring in plenty of tourist dollars!) be made to bow to the same laws they are applying to other businesses. It might drive the tourists with their fat wallets away, and then they'd end up losing even more money!
Greedy you-know-whats!!
In reading this carefully(which I should have done the first time) it looks like this group is against the exemptions,not against the ban.
Does this mean they don't mind the ban but want the so-called "level playing field"?