Reply With QuoteEasy to find $1 pax of Marlboros in any area with lots of foot traffic.
I don't smoke, but my friends do and they buy them.
They don't have any tax seals on them, and the small print writing is in Portugese/Arabic/Chineese.
calabass and san diego peeps? have you seen any changes in anything since the smoking bands have been passed...i do have a friend that owns a cig store in san diego and he states he has seen a 30% drop in sales......i believe the local city governments are starting something that will ruin a lot of small business....
Easy to find $1 pax of Marlboros in any area with lots of foot traffic.
I don't smoke, but my friends do and they buy them.
They don't have any tax seals on them, and the small print writing is in Portugese/Arabic/Chineese.
I hope so!!! Driving the damn 405freeyway to work this morning and some prick through a cig out his window and it hit me...luck my jacket seals off at the next and I have the screens on my helmet!!! I flipped him off and almost took his mirror off!!!
Im not a smoker myself but have fought against the smoking bans.
While I may not like cig smoke I am against any bans that eliminate any freedoms or let them regulate our lives any more than they already do..
You give them an inch they will take that inch and stick up your rear.
Im not a smoker myself but have fought against the smoking bans.
While I may not like cig smoke I am against any bans that eliminate any freedoms or let them regulate our lives any more than they already do..
You give them an inch they will take that inch and stick up your rear.
First it was smoking,, now they want to regulate the kind of food you can eat in NYC.
True, look it up.
OK,, that's it Willie, the Adventists are offended ya eat Crawfish.
$250 fine, and you loose the kids, and your truck.
First it was smoking,, now they want to regulate the kind of food you can eat in NYC.
True, look it up.
OK,, that's it Willie, the Adventists are offended ya eat Crawfish.
$250 fine, and you loose the kids, and your truck.
You only loose the truck if you TRANSPORTED the (un taxed) crawfish in it........Gee, I can remember when "kools" were cool, and pot was the "devil weed". How times are changin' !!........MP
Gwinnett County a part of Metro Atlanta banned smoking and many resturants and clubs found business actually increased as many non-smokers came back to the now "clean air environment".
I agree with the rights thing, but it's also a right to able to breath clean air and not go home smelling like an ashtray. Arrogant smokers should consider it a priviledge to be able to pursue a deadly habit not a right.
. Arrogant smokers should consider it a priviledge to be able to pursue a deadly habit not a right.
Hope you still feel the same way when they change that to
Arrogant drinkers should consider it a priviledge to be able to pursue a deadly habit not a right.
Arrogant boaters should consider it a priviledge to be able to pursue a deadly habit not a right.
etc,etc..
Anyone who thinks it wont keep spiraling hasnt been paying attention for the past 30 years.
My province banned smoking indoors about a decade ago. There's no smoking in restaurants or bars.
Just before the ban, smokers were screaming bloody murder saying they were going to stop going to bars and restaurants, etc. Of course, they didn't. I doubt there was any noticeable difference. If anything, I think restaurants have more business now.
As far as a ban encouraging anyone to quit smoking goes, I doubt if even one person here quit because of it.
At work, Smokers still go to our back step and huddle around the door to have a smoke in -40C weather. The guys always wear jackets but there are some women who go down in just a sweater on the coldest days. They always look like they're about to die. lol!
I, personally, like the ban. I didn't go to restaurants for years. It didn't make sense. I'd pay to not eat in that disgusting environment. I know quite a few smokers who feel the same.
I doubt teenagers looking to pick the habbit up give a rats ass about the ban. If anything, it probably encourages them to start but I have no statistics or really much of an idea on that. All I know is tons of teenagers continue to start smoking. The entrance ways to high schools are always crowded with students having a smoke between class.
not being a smoker myself I liked it when santa clara county did the ban.
there's nothing worse than trying to eat food, and having to smell that shit.
(my parents have always smoked, and me and my 2 sisters always hated it)
another note: my brotherinlaw who owns restuarants, was always against
the ban, he states it would drive away business........... it didn't seem to...
On my first trip to Ireland, they had just passed the no smoking ban in
pubs and restuarants about 1 month before...... it was great-! damn near
everyone in europe smokes............
Bartenders did state that business with no "assigned" smoking areas were
hurting, while other pubs that had outside facilities were booming.....
--Sherpa ........... Now if only the casino's would do the ban........
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