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Posted on 09/18/2003 12:45:25 PM PDT by hoosierskypilot
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As a non-smoker, some of my favorite memories are when I was living in Tennessee and went out to eat in a nice restaurant. (Yes, they have some of these in TN.) The hostess would ask, "smoking or non-smoking?" I asked for non-smoking. Then she would seat me in the non-smoking area which happened to be about 12 1/2 inches from the smoking area. I just loved trying to enjoy my meal while inhaling 32 toxic gasses, included cyanide and carbon monoxide.
To: hoosierskypilot
Oh, please, this has nothing to do with health, and you know it. Mr. Der Bogosian gives it away: he doesn't even want to SMELL cigarettes, even if there is no real smoke present. Bunch of fastidious whiners. Maybe I will just go around farting, just to soil the air of the smell police.
To: hoosierskypilot
As someone said, having smoking and non-smoking areas in a restaurant is like having peeing and non-peeing areas in a swimming pool.
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posted on
09/18/2003 12:51:23 PM PDT
by
omega4412
To: Trailerpark Badass
I travel a great deal and have probably spent over $50,000 on hotels in the last 12 months. I will be more than happy to spend these dollars at hotels that allow me to smoke. Its the owner's choice to decide what goes and doesen't go in their business, but its my choice where i spend my money. So if you want to be that way, say ciao to my $$$$$!!!!
To: hoosierskypilot
Send em over my way, in the form of a hand rolled CEEE-GARR!
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posted on
09/18/2003 12:59:14 PM PDT
by
TLI
(...........ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA..........)
To: ChinaThreat
Thankfully, my high-milage traveling days are over, but it's instructive to see that non-smokers are abandoning the pretext that their concerns are health-related. No cigarette smoke would remain in a hotel room that could be dangerous to the next guest. They just don't like the smell.
Now, as consumers, they have every right to patronize businesses that cater to their needs, and private businesses have every right to cater to them. But using health concerns to insure their access to odor-free air is fraudulent. I wonder if any of them find the medical marijuana argument distasteful in the same way?
To: hoosierskypilot
I'm a non-smoker that disagrees with the government forcing businesses to become non-smoking. But if this decision was made by the businesses of their own accord then I have no problem with that.
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posted on
09/18/2003 1:04:48 PM PDT
by
TXBubba
(Someday I'll change my name to TXBubbette)
To: hoosierskypilot
I just loved trying to enjoy my meal while inhaling 32 toxic gasses, included cyanide and carbon monoxide. Here comes the call for government guns to force people to run their business as YOU see fit.
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posted on
09/18/2003 1:09:48 PM PDT
by
Protagoras
(Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children.)
To: TXBubba
I'm a non-smoker that disagrees with the government forcing businesses to become non-smoking. But if this decision was made by the businesses of their own accord then I have no problem with that.Bingo!
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posted on
09/18/2003 1:10:33 PM PDT
by
Protagoras
(Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children.)
To: omega4412
LOL!!
To: omega4412
As someone said, having smoking and non-smoking areas in a restaurant is like having peeing and non-peeing areas in a swimming pool. ROFL! I never thought of it that way!
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posted on
09/18/2003 1:14:55 PM PDT
by
CheneyChick
(Kah-lee-fohr-nyah)
To: omega4412
As someone said, having smoking and non-smoking areas in a restaurant is like having peeing and non-peeing areas in a swimming pool.Your analogy is apt inasmuch as both the pool and the restaurant will dilute the concentration of harmful substances to the point that only a hypochondriac would worry about it.
To: Protagoras
I don't know about that, but three things I like about CA: 1) the weather, 2) the endless variety of fresh foods and 3) the fact that there is no smoking in any public facility.
I knew a guy who loved to pass gas (he was a youngster, at the time). He loved the sound, the sensation and even the odor (of his own, only, I suspect). But nobody around him, including his parents, enjoyed the event. They felt it was intrusive, rude and ill-mannered.
Ditto for smoking in public.
To: Trailerpark Badass
LOL...That would be a great scene in a movie. Some American's are become so sensitive.
I also find it amazing that our politicians can ban smoking across the land but can't stop illegal immigration. The politicians must be getting a kickback from the smugglers.
DC mayor just said a curfew is an option. This windy weather is so overblown in the media. DC is shut down for 2 days.
To: hoosierskypilot
They felt it was intrusive, rude and ill-mannered. But not unhealthy. Thank you for your candor.
To: Trailerpark Badass
As someone said, having smoking and non-smoking areas in a restaurant is like having peeing and non-peeing areas in a swimming pool
I sure wish they had non-democrat seating areas. I could go for an eating establishment that would keep THOSE yahoos out. They make me physically ill. /S
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posted on
09/18/2003 1:38:07 PM PDT
by
Roughneck
(Like Terrorists? Vote for democrats in 2004.)
To: Trailerpark Badass; hoosierskypilot
They felt it was intrusive, rude and ill-mannered. But not unhealthy. Thank you for your candor.
And when government panders to these "feelings" by legislation, they're wrong. When business owners make business decisions - even ones I don't like - I'm free to find others who see it my way.
BTW, in a restaurant with properly designed ventilation, smokers and non-smokers can each be satisfied. Merely designating a portion as "non-smoking" doesn't cut it. In common areas, such as the cashier's and maitre d's areas, as well as waiting rooms, the restaurant would probably choose to make them non-smoking.
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posted on
09/18/2003 1:42:36 PM PDT
by
jimt
To: Trailerpark Badass
I appreciate your plight. Really, I do. I, too, was addicted to nicotene. I started with cigarettes, then pipes, then (hand-rolled) cigars, then leaf chewing tobacco, then Skoal (I loved that one!), then nicotene chewing gum.
But then I married a nurse who began to point out that certain of my health problems were related to the toxin, nicotene. So, I told her she was wrong, and went to my doc for proof. He confirmed what she said, so I decided to stop for awhile. The health problems (mostly cardio-vascular) went away.
The fact is that 500,000 people die in the U.S. every year from cigarettes. If they simply died, that might be one thing. But they linger. And we pay for it in the form of lost productivity and higher taxes (to pay for their health-care).
Anything to discourage people from nicotene is good.
To: hoosierskypilot
"in Basking Ridge, about a half-hour drive west of New York City, the 171-room North Maple Inn"
My brother is a manager at this hotel !!! What a hoot!!! I`ve been there many times. Used to be "The AT&T Learning Center ".
To: Protagoras
as YOU see fit Govt does nothing as "I" see fit. I have less than zero voice in our prevailing oligarchy. But, like you, I applaud decisions that are made with which I happen to agree.
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