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Originally posted by cash78mere
you can't be serious. 
you're going to tell me that because YOU want to smoke and put smoke in the air for other people to breathe that I should have to go somewhere else?
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yes.
As Winterbloom said, not only does it get frightfully cold here, but we have open container laws. And there are enough zealots around here who think getting rid of open container would be the slippery slope to orgies on the streets...that open container isn't going away anytime soon. Betweem the 2 evils, people will definitely say "smoke em if you got em!"
The bars that would really get screwed here are the little hometown places with the retired steelworkers and such...those guys have smoked all their lives and at this late date I'm not about to tell them they can't, nor would most bar owners enforce such a law. We have enough laws that aren't being followed, we really don't need another.
I do agree that some of the smoking/non-smoking sections are pretty lame, and if you're over a certain capacity you should have a real division, with walls and separate ventilation. Don't penalize the small business owners though, by making them follow a law that most of their clientele thinks is ridiculous.
Oh, and explain to me the people who are virulently non-smoking but drive gas-guzzling SUVs...what am I missing here?
