French Smoking Ban Goes Into Effect

[WhiteWidow]

Lame:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16921417/

[Monk]

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.

[Kass]

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.

[Shelby07]

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.

[jiaguy]

Any cafe, bar restaurant that lets me smoke a cigar while hanging out deserves my repeat business. There are quite a few here for being a outlandishly liberal town.

[ashauler]

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.

[597]

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.

[cigarsarge]

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.

[Thumper]

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.

[drew_goring]

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.

Edmonton, eh?