The legislation being considered, if passed...
Will once again allow smoking in bars and a few other PRIVATELY-OWNED establishments should the owners decide that that is what they want.
Imagine that? Owners of a of bar being allowed to let folks enjoy a completely legal habit within their private property.
How wacky is that in these times?
You see, a couple of years ago, Ohio voters passed a law that banned smoking in any public place, not merely restaurants.
This ban includes bars, DAV halls, American Legion halls, bowling alleys, etc., whether they serve food or not.
Smoke-Free Ohio, the group that got the legislation on the ballot, had said that non-smokers would frequent these places when smoking was banned.
Ha. That’s why the overall bar business is off 30% in Ohio since its inception and many have closed.
In addition to that, I find it ironic that a veteran returning home from defending our freedom is prohibited from exercising his or her legal right to smoke when at a VFW hall.
To Smoke-Free Ohio, those who have enacted laws prohibiting smoking in one’s own car with a child present, and others going as far to call smoking in a house with children, child abuse…While I inhale, you can blow me.
Your trumped up second-hand smoke (ETS) stats are a joke as are you…However, I and many other freedom puffing Americans are tired of being your punch line.
Seriously, some people should really mind their own business and allow other people to run their businesses as they see fit.
If mom and pop want their bar, restaurant, or private club to allow smoking, let them do such, and allow the free market and consumer choice determine the fate of their establishment.
Sure, cigarette smoke is an irritant, but in order to “second-hand” ingest the amount of carcinogens in one Marlboro, one would have to be in a packed bar full of smokers for 250 hours straight!!
If people want to do away with odiferous irritants, let’s also ban all chicks who wear three tons of make-up and a gallon of eau de toilet from public places.
Let’s ban all dudes who are going through a mid-life crisis while wearing gold chains and suffering from an Old Spice overdose from public places.Hell, speaking of banning irritants, let’s do away with Sean Hannity, Keith Olbermann, and Perez Hilton.
While we’re at it, let’s outlaw that fucked up Zyrtec allergy relief commercial with the chick who acts like she is about ready to have sex with her bicycle!!
And one more thing, dammit!! Let’s do away with alcohol, fast food, and self-rightgeousness.
After all, second hand alcohol, aka drunk driving, kills more people in a week than second hand smoke does in years.
Abuse and reliance upon fast food overwhemingly adversely affects more adults and their children than does second-hand smoke.
And…self-righteousness affects more people than all of those things combined. And more importantly?
Self-righteousness also has incredibly detrimental and long-lasting effects on the greatest document ever written…
Our Constitution.
Cheers!!
