This sounds so fair - have both - but then there is no ban, and we're right back to where we are now - with almost none, because of the $$$ paid by Big Tobacco to bars (big bucks to display a cigarette ad - payoff for having smoking, for an environment to hook the young for life.)
And if a law were set up to make 80% of bars non-smoking, and 20% smoking - in line with population percentages - Big Tobacco would plow really big bucks into the 20%, send all the big music acts there, so the only **exciting** bars in town are the SMOKING bars. Big Tobacco is craven, immoral, opportunistic, manipulative, the worst of our corporations - give them an inch and they will take a mile. So give them no inches at all. The Arabs have a saying about camels -you let the camel get his nose in the tent, and soon the whole camel is inside. Don't let the Camel in, no part of it, no nose, nothing. A complete and total ban. Anytbing else and it will be undermined in a few months or years. Stop these criminals now. --David Shove Roseville On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Robert Yorga wrote: > Hello all, > > This whole thing is being looked at the wrong way.....let's have both...... > clubs and bars that are smoke-free and clubs and bars that are not > smoke-free. This would be good for both sides. The smokers are happy and the > non-smokers are happy. And except for a band playing a certain venue and not > another I think it would work fine. A law wouldn't need to be made and > enforced and a new niche is created. This is truly what diversity is about. > Society may have changed it's view of smoking but some adults will continue > to want to smoke. Smokers are like cornered animals as it is these > days.....lets not make it worse. Cessation of smoking will take care of > itself.....in due time. REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
