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Another freedom lost

PSFD DONKEYPSFD DONKEY Member Posts: 771 ✭✭✭✭
edited May 2009 in General Discussion
Wisconsin just passed a statewide smoking ban. Smoker or not where does this end, what's next!!!
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  • storm6490storm6490 Member Posts: 8,010
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by PSFD DONKEY
    Wisconsin just passed a statewide smoking ban. Smoker or not where does this end, what's next!!!


    a ban in bars and so on?

    montana has that crap as well. lots of the bars will soon be private clubs to get around it... the palace will charge a nickel for an annual membership.
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  • PSFD DONKEYPSFD DONKEY Member Posts: 771 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Any public place including bars
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  • penetraitorpenetraitor Member Posts: 3,870
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by PSFD DONKEY
    Wisconsin just passed a statewide smoking ban. Smoker or not where does this end, what's next!!!


    The county I live in, in Indiana passed one also even if its your own business. No more back room smoking on the property you own or rent. PERIOD! Or you could face a date with the judge and fines.
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    Florida bars have a rule.If it makes more than 25%, i believe, of it's sales in food,NO SMOKING!
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  • dan kellydan kelly Member Posts: 9,799
    edited November -1
    been in place here for awhile now in pubs and bars[:(]...been in place in restaraunts for more years than i can remember.
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  • rsnyder55rsnyder55 Member Posts: 2,526 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Look past this.

    Taxes on cigarettes are used to fund health programs for children. If everyone stops smoking, guess what other freedom you will be losing?

    The freedom to buy things because they are going to increase your taxes to keep paying for the programs cigarette taxes were used to pay.
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They passes a smoking ban in public places, a while back, here in Colorado too.
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  • storm6490storm6490 Member Posts: 8,010
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by PSFD DONKEY
    Any public place including bars


    so you can't smoke while walking down the street?

    that's really commie..

    how about in your car?
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  • sundvlaa15sundvlaa15 Member Posts: 39 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Had it here in Wa for acouple years now. Can't smoke within 25' of a door way. I'm not sure, because our County banned it in Food establishments before the State Law covered all Indoor Public locations. Ofcourse they just made the Cigerate Tax $1.03 per pack to make up for the LOST REVENUE!!
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  • storm6490storm6490 Member Posts: 8,010
    edited November -1
    check out chobies gold tobacco seeds.

    might as well grow it if they tax the hell out of it!
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  • robbie pennyrobbie penny Member Posts: 179 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    california has had it for about 20 years. recently they banned smoking at all beaches and public parks too.
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  • drobsdrobs Member Posts: 22,613 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Soon as IL passed it, WI was soon to follow. No real suprize there.
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  • Sig220_Ruger77Sig220_Ruger77 Member Posts: 12,748 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Soon as IL passed it, WI was soon to follow. No real suprize there.

    Yep. Chicago, Milwaukee, and Madison run these two states.[V][:(!]

    Jon
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  • drobsdrobs Member Posts: 22,613 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Jon0322
    quote:Soon as IL passed it, WI was soon to follow. No real suprize there.

    Yep. Chicago, Milwaukee, and Madison run these two states.[V][:(!]

    Jon


    I will miss going to the Brat Stop in Kenosha to enjoy a cold beer and cigarette after a day fishing or shooting.
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  • machine gun moranmachine gun moran Member Posts: 5,198
    edited November -1
    The Governor of Wisconsin just raised the tax on cigarettes by another dollar (this is the second time).

    Anybody ever hear of somebody who called off work because he smoked too many cigarettes the night before? Or who didn't feed his kids because he smoked too much, or beat up his wife after a night of smoking cigarettes, or piled his pickup into another car after excessive smoking?

    Some lady said she thought that the real reason for the Politician's war on smoking was that it was discovered that something in cigarette smoke gave an immunity to whatever is in aerial spraying, or to AIDS, or to anthrax, or to... That is more plausible than any other reason the politicians have come up with.

    If 'second-hand smoke' actually caused cancer, anyone who took direct pulls off cigarettes wouldn't last a month. Somehow, most smokers live into old age, and die from something else.
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  • dbain99dbain99 Member Posts: 2,104 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    La did the same a couple years back, one of the greatest legislative moves ever, no smoking in bars and resturaunts. You can still burn em in the casinos if you like, just not the poker room.
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  • calrugerfancalrugerfan Member Posts: 18,209 ✭
    edited November -1
    Solution: electronic cigarette
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  • Cling2mygunsCling2myguns Member Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    IA banned smoking everywhere EXCEPT casinos. Whats funny is they ran ads that it was all about the health of workers in bars and restaurants. I guess casino employess are expendable.
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  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm not really surprised by what any body of lawmakers does, but I'll admit I was a little surprised when North Carolina outlawed smoking. Tobacco has supported North Carolina for several centuries, and was almost their sole support for a long time.

    If you think about it, the total loss of freedom can be the only outcome of how we do business. We literally have thousands of people employed full time making laws. Each time they pass a law a little of your liberty dies. When they have completely destroyed the tobacco industry they will not stop making laws.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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