Smoking ban in Philadelphia approved

[rjs246]

screw that...cigarettes should be illegal period

and if they arent gonna be keep em in your house...i dont want that nastiness around me

Then don't go to bars that allow smoking. Why should other people have to change what they do to appease you?

[mussa]

IGY = Bar Diva

[SunMo]

We could stay home if we want, or we can suck it up and not act like bitches.

this is where the zealots ask you why they shouldn't be allowed to go to a certain resturaunt.  they don't understand the freedom of choice though.

[phattymatty]

2 years ago this would have made me furious.  now that i'm beginiing to think about quitting i could care less.

[ice grillin you]

In that case, keep your exhaust spewing car in your garage igy.  I don't want that nastiness around me.

cars are a necessary evil...i dont particularly like them but they serve a purpose and until they offer public transportation from maryland to the linc i need one

well you can't smoke in a bar, but you can get shtein faced and drive home

actually you cant do either...and if you get caught doing so you will pay the consequences

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I already quit, AND I rarely go to bars... but I do know that drinking at a bar without smoking is for douches.

[rjs246]

We could stay home if we want, or we can suck it up and not act like bitches.

this is where the zealots ask you why they shouldn't be allowed to go to a certain resturaunt. they don't understand the freedom of choice though.

They are allowed to go whereever they want. In certain places they'll just have to deal with people exercising their right to smoke. The truth is that people just don't like cigarettes and want to stop other people from doing it for their own selfish bullshtein reasons.

[mussa]

Ok IGY, but my point is you can consume alcohol in a bar. you can consume as much as you want until the bartender flags you. you can jump in your car and drive home with a balding hooker. you can wake up with a burning meatcicle. but u can't smoke in a bar.

[ice grillin you]

The truth is that people just don't like cigarettes and want to stop other people from doing it for their own selfish bullshtein reasons.

of course it is...what the hell else would it be....its pure nastiness...something that not just is physically dangerous to people but is also unbelievably annoying and gross...do it if you must just dont do it around me

this is no different than smokers same selfish reasons for not wanting to be inconvienanced and have to smoke outside

[rjs246]

There is a difference. Telling adults that they can put one dangerous drug into their body but not another is arbitrary. Telling them where they can do it is also arbitrary, especially when the drug in question doesn't impair the mind at all. Might as well tell someone that they can't take tylenol on a park bench or snort coke off of a hookers anus. IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!

[Philly_Crew]

I'm not a smoker and I hate heavy smoke in bars BUT it is not the government's place to dictate legal activities in a private business.  Smoking is either legal or illegal.  If there are enough people who don't want a smoke-filled bar, someone will open it and you can have a choice.

[ice grillin you]

Telling adults that they can put one dangerous drug into their body but not another is arbitrary

when one drug effects people other than the person doing the drug it most certainly should be arbitrary tho

yes you can drink alcohol and drive but it is illegal to drive as your actions there might effect someone else...thus drinking and driving is illegal but drinking isnt...just like cigarette smoking is not illegal but doing it in a scenario that effects another is

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Standing at sports games should be illegal, then.
Because people should have the right to stay seated and still see the game.  They paid for the seat, right?

[ice grillin you]

Standing at sports games should be illegal, then.
Because people should have the right to stay seated and still see the game.  They paid for the seat, right?

that doesnt compromise another persons health


look im done going back n forth we could do it all night...fact is outside of nebraska and montana smoking will in the not to distant furture be out of all public places...and that is a GREAT thing....so in the end i win

[Rome]

The smoking ban in Florida was a boon to the bar business.

I know it's a different climate and all but it's been a rousing success here.