has any of the smoking bands changed your city

[Moneypitt]

Now if only the casino's would do the ban........
Right after banning drinking, boating, any cel phone use anywhere at any time,(you know they cause cancer) they will ban all gambling, and the casinos will be gone.........MP

[Old Texan]

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.
Most of the smoking bans came from public vote.
Now explain how your rights removal theory works according to popular vote?
By arrogant smokers I'm refering to common sense. The majority I've encountered don't have common sense thus the majority told them to do it elsewhere.
Drinking already has many restrictions aimed at safety. Boating is the same and it just might be time to take the "Priviledge" of watercraft operation from some of the idiots that abuse the "Priviledge" by mandating safe operations courses and even licensing.
The whiners that lose their "rights" are often the senseless that abuse their "Priviledge".
By the way since you are on Travis, can you honestly tell me there aren't a whole bunch of fools working on changing alcohol laws for the worse at Carlos and Charlie's on a busy weekend? :crossx: Common sense or arrogance? :wink:

[eliminatedsprinter]

--Sherpa ........... Now if only the casino's would do the ban........
This is choice, ban one dumb addiction, so you can better enjoy another.
I personally think habbitual cigerette smoking is dumb, but I also feel banning anything a large number of people enjoy is dumber. We all have things we like to do, that could be singled out by busy body activists for special taxation or regulation. As long a people only react to these things if their "own ox is gored" none of our hobbies or pleasures is safe from "The Tyranny of The Busy Body".

[Tom Brown]

I personally think habbitual cigerette smoking is dumb...
I take it you smoke when you drink?

[eliminatedsprinter]

I take it you smoke when you drink?
You caught that key word "habbitual". Good pickup.
I've been known to have a cigar or sometimes a cigerette by the campfire with a drink.
But even if I never touched tobbaco, I still wouldn't support new bans or high taxes etc..I just can't stand the idea of singling out alleged vices for such stuff. Just because I think something may be dumb doesn't mean I think that people who do it are. Hell, I do lots of dumb things, including trying to drive fast on water.

[mike37]

we have had bans on smoking in San Louise Obispo for years
its great we don't have to smell some Stinky as smoke at diner
you can smoke at your own hose all you want
most smoker are very inconsiderate throwing there buts on the ground and blowing smoke in the kid face
as soon as you light up next to me at the beach you have taken away my rights
keep your stinking habits at home not in public

[Tom Brown]

I still wouldn't support bans or high taxes etc..
It's not a ban on smoking. If smoking were banned, selling tobacco would be illegal.

[a catered life]

it seems that most people like the idea but dont like the way local governments are handling the issue...i was raised in a heavy smoker houehold and working in the foodservice industry i have had my fair share but when laws are written the way they are for this issue i must disagree.....like most of you said it will start with smoking and then slowly move to you cant eat beef on sundays, then no high octane gas usage during the weekday ...what i mean is a lot of stupid ass rules.....smoke doesnt bother me as much as the big ass semi-truck coming down the street with the black smoke puffing out of the stacks or the laidlaw school bus that just filled up my car with a thick ass fog coming out of its pipes

[eliminatedsprinter]

It's not a ban on smoking. If smoking were banned, selling tobacco would be illegal.
Where did that come from?
The word "ban" simply means to forbid. It is entirely possible to ban the act of smoking in many places, without making the sale of tobacco illegal.

[Cole Sanger]

So what. Close all the stores that sell it for all I care. Do you not get that it causes cancer? It actually kills people. It gives them cancer and then it kills them. Then as a by product it kills everyone around them. They smoke, their kids, family and friends get cancer and they die. Why would anyone want to keep these stores open? Oh yeah, money. The root of all evil. Has anyone thought about the money spent on healthcare? Keep one store open, kill more than a hundred, and waste a ton of money trying to keep them alive. I am sure that I won't get through to the smokers. They are too hooked to reason with.