Check out this article on the proposed outdoor smoking ban they want to put into effect in Cali. I gave 'em up 2 years ago or so....so this doesn't bother me. What does everyone think?? Smoking Ban Proposal :smokin:
Delaware was the first to do it. I LOVE IT! It's really great. I know PA, NJ, and MD are trying to pass it, I don't really know what's going on with them. People can't smoke in bars, which in a way, kinda sucks, but since I hate cigarette smoke of any kind it's still good for me. Not that I can go to bars yet, but still haha
Sounds good to me, you know one thing they should also outlaw is parents smoking when accompany by their children, i seen it so many times, parents blowing smoke in their children's faces and they probbaly don't even realized what they're doing....
I think that is a good idea.....here in Florida, we have a law against smoking in restaurants....which I think is great...since my dad gave up smoking 6 years ago. Actually when we went to Chicago this past summer, we had to remember to ask for a non-smoking table, since down here you just tell them that you would like a table or booth, since there is no smoking in restaurants. :biggrin:
Gamer....when I was in Florida last summer they had just started that No smoking in bars and restaurants law. It was weird sitting in the TGI Fridays and not smelling any smoke...especially as close to the bar as I was. And it was nice leaving without my clothes smelling like smoke too. Although I used to smoke, being around it doesn't bother me too much.....although I have a bit of an allergy to it now, so I'm not really supposed to be around it alot. But AirB....this San Francisco law would be the first to ban OUTDOOR smoking in public places. They aren't that strict up in Delaware are they? You are the same as Florida, just banned in bars and restaurants?
It was weird for us at first, too, but now we are used to it. Yeah, I'm glad that Florida has a smoking ban in restaurants.
I like all these bans, since I don't smoke and have asthma. Still, if given the chance to vote on them I would vote against them every time.
I'm the occasional cigar smoker so the ban in NYC doesn't bother me. But cigarette smoke does irritate the snot out of me.
I like it. I believe there are areas of Boston (Brookline) where outdoor smoking has been banned. I do like going into restuarants and bars where there is no smoking. I should not be subjected to the smoke. And while we're on the topic of smoking, I find it absolutely obnoxious when people throw their cigarette butts on the street or sidewalk! I want to throw them right back.
No, it isn't. Smoking is banned outdoors in the City of Los Angeles, north of Sunset Blvd. and south of Ventura Blvd., in the Santa Monica Mountains. It's for fire safety, not health safety, but there are large signs on all the canyon roads that go over the hill saying "NO! DON'T SMOKE IN THE HILLS". Those signs have been here since at least 1992.
Smoking was totally banned on Lassen NF when I was working there in the summer of 2002. It was not much fun being in charge of smokers that had to go 10 hours/day without a cigarette.
I am a smoker and as such I believe it is wrong to ban smoking in bars. I believe it is wrong to ban smoking in restaraunts, I think that choice should be left up to the individual proprietor of the establishment. That said, I believe if you are going to allow smoking in restaraunts there should be clearly defined smoking and non-smoking sections and pretty much no smoke should be able to get from the smoking sectoin to the non-smoking section. I believe it is wrong to smoke around children and so I don't. I believe it is wrong to smoke around people who don't smoke and so I generally don'tunless they are in the smoking section of a restaraunt (not my fault) or I didn't notice them and they start doing that obvious, fake cough that non-smokers use to try and tell us smokers that they are annoyed by us smoking. Just ask, I'll be more than happy to put it out but if you're going to be all passive-aggressive then I'll continue to pollute my lungs as well as yours. Like I said, I don't believe smoking in bars should be banned because it's a bar... it's a den of vice, children shouldn't be there and if you're a non-smoker and smoking bothers you that much you can leave and drink at home go to a restaraunt and drink in the non-smoking section or go to a bar that doesn't allow smoking. It should't be a law, it should be up to the owner of the bar whether or not to allow smoking. As for smoking outside, except for forest fire safety issues I can't believe there is any way that smoking can be banned outside. If you don't like the smoke you can move, it isn't as though you're trapped with the person. You always have a choice to move or you can ask the person to move. I guess Dennis Leary wasn't far off when he said soon the only place people would be allowed to smoke was in their apartment under a blanket with the lights out... but since I don't smoke in my house I guess that leaves me SOL.
That's pretty much why even as a non-smoker I don't like the bans. Or rather I like them, but I think they are wrong. The most common argument is that "I have a right to eat/work/drink in a smoke-free environment." Rubbish. No one has "the right" to go out to eat, to go to a bar, etc. That's a privilege. If you don't like the smoke stay home and eat or drink. Get take-out. Find a place that does not permit smoking. Many options. If you insist on going to a bar, be prepared to stink of smoke when you leave. As for the employees...I think you know when applying for the job the envrionment you are potentially getting yourself into.
Me too, just a minute of that stuff and i'm coughing, weezing, eh, it sucks, good thing it's baned in restraunts and stuff her too.
LOL, probably just us, El Paso is not like East Texas where the stereotypes do exist. Like the hillbilly talk.... my moms family has it
It could be worse... "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Disneyland proudly presents our spectacular festival pageant of night-time magic and imagination in thousands of sparkling lights and electrosymphomagnetic musical sounds, the Main Street Electrical Parade!" (GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD!!!)
