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Our Wisconsin Legislators finally did the correct thing today by passing the clean indoor act!
Wisconsin will be smoke-free July 5th, 2010!
As an ex-smoker of 13 years, I am really torn on this one. I personally think smoking should be allowed in bars if no food is served. But I am really super glad about the rest of it.
I wish Michigan would get with the program on this as well, but it doesn’t seem likely any time soon. 🙄 At least I will be able to enjoy not smelling like an ashtray walking out of places when I visit Wisconsin.
As long as smoking is still a legal activity, this legislation makes no sense. No one in our household smokes and we avoid places where people do. But that’s the point. It should be left up to businesses and the marketplace to manage this, rather than regulate behavior.
Until government has the guts to make smoking tobacco itself illegal, this is just cowardice on their part. Goverment loves to tax smokers but hates to have them around. You can’t have it both ways!
On the Left Side of the Road...i have a feeling that there are going to be a lot of spitoon’s surrounding barstools around the state come june 5th, 2010.. just what you need.. spill one of those all over your new balence sneakers.. lol
I’m a non-smoker and just can’t believe this legislation. I have worked in a bar and restaurant and I knew smoking was allowed before I was hired. I didn’t have to work there, but I chose to. A business should be allowed to decide for themselves to allow it or not. Let the business owners place “smoking allowed” or “no smoking allowed” signs in their windows. Next we won’t be able to enjoy a drink when we go out for dinner.
I better shut up now because I am ready to go on all night.
I do not support this BS legislation. Simply put, as a non-smoker if I don’t want to be in a smokey environment, I go somewhere else.
So glad to see more personal liberties being trampled on and taken away “for our own good”. 👿 👿 👿 👿 👿 👿 👿
Well, Kat, sometimes people have to be told what is for their own good!
Hooray for Wisconsin. Finally ………
And those cities and states which pass smoking bans …. business is back to usual in a short time.
@marc_54140 wrote:
Well, Kat, sometimes people have to be told what is for their own good!
Hooray for Wisconsin. Finally ………And those cities and states which pass smoking bans …. business is back to usual in a short time.
Well, I still stand by my right of free will to make my own decisions regarding what is and is not good for me. As for those who need to be told what is good for them? I say leave them be! It will just get the bad genes out of the pool that much quicker! 😆
@marc_54140 wrote:
Well, Kat, sometimes people have to be told what is for their own good!
Well Marc, that’s sort of the point, isn’t it? Nothing illegal about smoking. If it’s so dang bad, just ban it! But until it is illegal, we have to quit treating smokers like pedophiles.
I mean, what’s next? “No B.O.” ordinances? No unexpected flatulence allowed? We all have a choice to eat or socialize at places that cater to us.
Chip, chip, chip goes liberty.
On the Left Side of the Road...@gotta run wrote:
No unexpected flatulence allowed?
Wait, Let’s not get to crazy here….That’s all I got left.
@gotta run wrote:
As long as smoking is still a legal activity, this legislation makes no sense. No one in our household smokes and we avoid places where people do. But that’s the point. It should be left up to businesses and the marketplace to manage this, rather than regulate behavior.
Until government has the guts to make smoking tobacco itself illegal, this is just cowardice on their part. Goverment loves to tax smokers but hates to have them around. You can’t have it both ways!
AMEN!
nothing new.. appleton’s been smoke free for how long? it was only a matter of time that wisconsin jumped on board and passed it.
I visited the Phoenix, AZ area more than 11 years ago and even then you couldn’t smoke anywhere except inside your home. My brother in law had to buy smokes while there and had to apply for some permit to buy them and pay money for the permit…
I am neither for or against the principle but I can tell you that some local establishments have benefited from my family’s patronage MORE since going smoke-free.
@-cheeto- wrote:
…some local establishments have benefited from my family’s patronage MORE since going smoke-free.
Same here. I avoid smoking permitted establishments. There is a George Web that went smoke free about a year ago. I went to it twice before that happened. Since the smokers got the boot my daughter and I have been there almost weekly.
And as for making smoking illegal, that’s just stupid. Outlaw it and organized crime will just show up…anyone recall prohibition? Limiting the areas where it is allowed is a much better solution. Smoking is a nasty habit and I’m glad I will be seeing less of it in the future. I’m looking forward to another $1 a pack tax increase too (and hopefully it won’t get to a point of profitability for criminals to steal and deal the product…well more than they do already).
This is one “right” I’m thrilled to be giving up.
@lostby7 wrote:
And as for making smoking illegal, that’s just stupid.
No need for a personal attack, Lostby7. My point being when we start “banning” legal activities on the basis that they are bad for us, whether it’s smoking or transfats or whatever people come up with, it’s an erosion of liberty. Smoking is still a legal activity that society loves to hate–what would we do without the tax revenue you refer to and want to see raised some more?
But anyway, my views are pretty clear on this, so that’s all I have to say.
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