Lame:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16921417/
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Not as lame as the linked report that cigarette companies have upped the nicotine 10% or more in the last 6 years. Those jackasses have shot themselves in the foot on the health front and now us cigar smokers have to pay for it. Asshats.
-W.
Personally I think its great (for non smokers atleast). We've had that in effect in Ontario for a while now. Its nice to go into a bar and enjoy some drinks without choking on second hand smoke. I got no problem smoking my cigars outside..except its a bit rough in the winter.
Although both I and Pauline smoked, we used to always get a table in the non smoking section of a restaurant when we would go out to eat. I never smelled any cigarette smoke in the non smoking section. It wasn't broke, but Colorado decided to fix it anyway. Since the smoking ban was implemented in July a large number of mom and pop taverns and restaurants have gone out of business.
Any cafe, bar restaurant that lets me smoke a cigar while hanging out deserves my repeat business.:smiley20: There are quite a few here for being a outlandishly liberal town.
Smoking policies at private establishments should be just that, policies, not laws. Everyone has a choice as to which businesses to patronize.....consumers vote with their wallets, and that is all that is necessary. Any law thats purpose is to protect me from myself.....is idiotic, imho.
I just hope the same type of bans don't happen in Baltimore (they have already been implemented in the county where I live). More than likely the ban will happen but at bars? Thats BS. Who goes to a bar for health reasons? You go there to get a few drinks and maybe get lucky. Its not a damn gym. And it sucks to smoke outside when its 10 degrees.
As long as they don't ban smoking at the local B&M I'm ok. I hate cigarette smoke but a cigar smoke filled room...Well lets just say that's where I'm in my element.
I do enjoy going to a cigar friendly resturant...Like The Stockyard in Nashville.
Up here in Edmonton Alberta Canada we cant smoke any where a resturant ,bar or B&M and it is pretty cold out right now. This really sucks but the wife likes it because it got my ass in gear and built the deck last summer.