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JustWait

On 9/14/2011 2:15 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:48:14 -0400, X `
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On 9/14/11 1:06 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:28:10 -0700, wrote:

On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:19:09 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:55:24 -0700, wrote:

It is only disruptive if we have nazis like you and Harry are there.
As you pointed out, it is not necessarily illegal to smoke in a bar in
Florida anyway. It all depends on what kind of license they have.
If it is a restaurant that serves liquor it is illegal. If it is a bar
that serves food (AKA a cocktail lounge with a class A license) it is
up to the county.
By a like token, if it is a tobacco store with a liquor license (a
cigar bar) it is legal too.

Oh, I'm a Nazi. Thanks for clarifying! So, it's not necessarily
illegal, but you don't like ANY restrictions on YOUR rights, and to
hell with anyone else.

I support everyone's rights.

So, define MY rights to not be around a carcinogenic cloud. How do I
avoid one in a restaurant. I'm seated. Some guy waltz' in from the
smoking section, and puffs away. I'm supposed to do what? Wait for the
bouncer? Leave myself?

Yes leave, please.
If enough people did that the owner would ban smoking or he would have
a smoking restaurant and you and Harry would never come in.

Nobody is holding a gun to your head and making you come in.

Owners of cheesy restaurants probably like a facility where smoking is
allowed, because it'll help conceal poor ingredients in and bad
preparation of the food. Why bother when the patrons can't smell or
taste what is served?

Show the *******s, don't go there.
This is a problem that the market can easily deal with.
If every non smoker boycotted "smoking allowed" places the market
would decide how many restaurants your cohort will support.
Unfortunately it may not be as big a number as you want to accept.

around 20% of Americans admit they smoke in surveys but sales numbers
seem to imply that number might be closer to 35-40%. I know a lot of
"non-smokers" who still smoke. You only have to look at the White
House to see that.

I do notice that the most vehement anti smoker evangelicals are former
smokers themselves who can't stand being around smoke because they
fear that they do not have the will power to resist sparking one up.

I will agree with anyone who says this is a drug addiction and it may
be harder to kick than heroin. That explains the number of people who
are hooked on the gum. (another disgusting habit). The people who
clean up the country club would much rather vacuum up a few cigarette
butts than to be scraping gum up out of the carpet and off the bottom
of the tables.

I was in my early twenties when my friend was running a AA meetings and
such. He always told me the worst hypocrites were ex drinkers who
preached to others to quit as if they were special or better "just
because they quit doing something they shouldn't have been doing in the
first place"... He was right of course.