Posted on 03/02/2017 8:56:01 PM PST by TBP
Drango will be deeply saddened by this article.
Nanny State PING!
Hey if bars, casinos and restaurants want to go out of business, go for it!!!
The average smoker is low education low income.
That’s where you want your market to be!! :)
Cause I would NEVER ####ing go to a place where a smoker is allowed again.
I’ve gotten used to not breathing in toxins. It fits me.
Doctor told my mom she has the lung of someone who smoked for 20 years.
Guess what. She didn’t. Guess who did?
“Gay bars cater to the 15 percent of the population that is gay...”
The article has some severe issues with the statistics cited.
I think he forgot a decimal point.
“I think he forgot a decimal point.”
Good thing he is just a hack writer and not a structural engineer, nuclear scientist, surgeon or an airline pilot.
Private Clubs with enough room and proper ventilation should be able to present the choice to adults. Outside patio seating or a separate windowed room, would be the ideal setting.
Just as I think private clubs and schools should be able to be men only if they want to be, without being sued into oblivion or slandered on Yelp and Facebook.
“The average smoker is low education low income.”
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I’m neither,and I smoke.
(I guess I’m just not “average”}
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You smoke in the next booth over from my family and me while I’m eating my tacos and enchilada, and I will come over and forcibly show you why I don’t want you doing that.
I support property rights. If there is smoking in an establishment, we cannot go, but it really is up to the business owner. I can see some benefits either way.
Ridiculous.
I know it would save us money. lol I prefer not to be where there is smoking. I do not like to smell like it. My husband cannot be around it, at all. If I go where there is smoking, I literally have to take a shower and get my clothes into the basement and in the washer. It is not worth the hassle.
But, we live in Wisconsin, so I imagine it would make lots of people very happy.
I think we have reached a point to where the social image and economics of permitting smoking in a business is more powerful than any government smoking ban.
Thus, you could open a restaurant, airline, bar or grocery story that allowed smoking, but in all likelihood, that business would fail.
Just ban tobacco. Problem solved.
I’m tired of all the anti-smoking zealots. Just ban it.
The whining drives me nuts. Ban it.
Stupid. Just ban cigarettes and get it over with. Still too many idiots smoking themselves into graves. So nice that they typically cannot intrude upon the rest of us that have enough common sense to know it is bad and want nothing to do with the filthy habit.
“Second-hand Smoke Isn’t as Harmful as Once Thought
In 2013 already there were indications...”
What? It’s been known for decades that second-hand smoke harm was junk science.
Did that information get swept completely under the rug?
Which is reason #5. The market can handle it, therefore the government shouldn’t.
” Still too many idiots smoking themselves into graves.”
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I’m a smoker who has seen many never smokers go ahead of me.
Life can be a crapshoot.
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I’ve never been able to figure it out, unless this applies.
Some folks can smoke for 50 years, not as big a problem as you would think. Others can smoke for 20 and die of lung cancer.
I think we each have our weaknesses, and for some folks smoking just isn’t it. For others, it is. For some, second hand smoke is a very big deal.
Your health is your business, but as a smoke I wouldn’t know that you had a lung problem just walking in and lighting up next to you.
I wouldn’t walk into an establishment and force my stink and smoke off on everyone else.
My mom and step-dad chain smoked. I’ve been in rooms that were about 15’ x 15’ with everyone in the room chains smoking, when I was about 12.
Within an hour, there was a four inch thick layer about four feet off the floor, that was just pure smoke.
You know what, it never bothered me.
As an adult now, I can smell it from 50 feet. It’s disgusting. I just don’t know how someone can be so crass as to force that off on everyone else in the place.
If they went back to allowing smoking in places, I wouldn’t frequent places that allowed smoking ever again.
IT SINKS! IT SMELLS TERRIBLE!
Have to agree, but I still miss them sooooo much! I went to a county fair somewhere in Mich. and didn’t see anyone light-up. Things have sure changed! The cost is outrageous!
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