> It is a Big Tobacco Myth that small bars will die
> from a smoking ban. But
> you just assume it.
Isn't that the same as you assuming that it is a big
tobacco myth that small bars will die with a ban?
this argument can be claimed by both sides.
> Then you require a ban to go statewide, thru
> Pawlenty. Pro-corporate
> demagogue Pawlenty will veto any ban. It won't
> happen there.
maybe Pawlenty will veto a ban because there are still
questions as to whether we need it. I know it is fun
to pin everything the governor does as a hand out to
coporations but I think that is taking the easy way
out.
> So the choice as you have it is, ban or small bars.
> And in that place, you
> choose bars. And then we are right back where we
> started, no ban, no
> non-smoking bars, a total victory for Big Tobacco
> and perhaps some part of
> the 20% who smoke, and nothing for the 80% who
> don't.
How many of the 80% who don't smoke are bothered by
people smoking at bars? I just thought of 15 of my
friends and family who don't care and if I spend some
more time at it I bet I can come up with 15 more. So
is it really 20% vs 80%?
> When corporations succeed in stuffing our heads with
> myths, we all lose.
>
I'd say when opposing views from our own are
considered coporate myths, we all lose.
closemindedness gets us nowhere.
John Harris
webber-camden
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