Lexington Smoking Ban Upheld
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I am stoked that the ban passed. Before moving here, I got used to a smoke free enviornment. Once in awhile I'll go out down here, but man, I hate feeling like crap when its just from the smoke I inhale, not from what I've been drinking. And there's nothing like feeling your stomach roll when you catch a wiff of what you were wearing the night before...
Never mess with a local!
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Should I remove it or keep it?
2 scoops ice cream, one scoop dead baby........
The smoking ban is ridiculous. If a private business owner wants to allow smoking in his restaurant then he should have the right to offer that to his clients, and if you don’t want to be around smoke, go somewhere else and vote with your dollars. It cracks me up, everyone bitches about the new FCC regulations and I hear everyone say if you don't like what’s on the channel then change it, same applies here. You may not agree with me but who the fuck are you to tell me what I can and can’t do. If the government wants to come in and establish strict guidelines on better air circulation and smoking areas within an establishment, fine. If the business owner wants to make his establishment smoke free, fine. Will the government fill the void in the business owners back pocket when he starts losing his clientele to other cities that don’t enforce a smoking ban, fuck no. And another thing, IT’S A BAR, your not going there to be healthy in the first place. Just one more step to total government control If you want to start worrying about what goes into your lungs start pushing for cleaner manufacturing, cleaner and more fuel efficient engines and so on. Its probably worse for you sitting in rush hour traffic than it is for you to step foot in a bar where someone is firing up, get a fucking life.
To all the smokers out there. Fight this ban, vote with your wallet. If at all possible go to a bar in Winchester/Richmond/Nicholasville, somewhere that does not have a smoking ban, stay at home to drink and socialize, write your government do something. Don’t let the liberal’s take away your freedoms due to their own warped personal agendas.
To all the smokers out there. Fight this ban, vote with your wallet. If at all possible go to a bar in Winchester/Richmond/Nicholasville, somewhere that does not have a smoking ban, stay at home to drink and socialize, write your government do something. Don’t let the liberal’s take away your freedoms due to their own warped personal agendas.
Nope and nope. So who are you to tell me to stay home when I have just as much "right" to go somewhere and eat as you do? How about YOU stay home to smoke.... I actually like to frequent O'Charley's and Applebee's and BW3's and all those other RESTAURANTS that will be gloriously smoke free starting Monday. As for "Will the government fill the void in the business owners back pocket when he starts losing his clientele to other cities that don’t enforce a smoking ban, fuck no", let me tell you a little secret: THEY ALL COME BACK. If they don't, then people who don't smoke will just take their place. The whole state of Delaware is non-smoking and my wife and I talked to some business owners/workers about their "loss of business" and you know what they said? They said at first it goes down, but just a bit, but they eventually ALL COME BACK. Ya know, personally I don' t care one way or the other. I have been going to bars for a long time and have put up with the smoke and it doesn't bother me that much. I just get a kick out of all you nicotine addicts who think they have the "right" to pollute the air that the rest of us have to breathe.
Oh and the smoking ban is not even really for the patrons, it's for the NON SMOKING employees who have to work in it night and day.
Piggy, my whole point is that as long as you don't take your lawfully RIGHTFULLY owned gun/cigarette/school voucher and ACTIVELY infringe upon my rights, then I say do whatever you like with it. If you want to go out and kill yourself, by all means, do so. Though I can't figure out how you would do that with a voucher, but I am sure there are some nut bags out there that will find a way.
Mj
Oh and the smoking ban is not even really for the patrons, it's for the NON SMOKING employees who have to work in it night and day.
Piggy, my whole point is that as long as you don't take your lawfully RIGHTFULLY owned gun/cigarette/school voucher and ACTIVELY infringe upon my rights, then I say do whatever you like with it. If you want to go out and kill yourself, by all means, do so. Though I can't figure out how you would do that with a voucher, but I am sure there are some nut bags out there that will find a way.
Mj
...quitting drinking is kinda like washing your hands after you take a crap...why start now?
Right on Climb High! To the rest "AHHHH shut up & light up!"
I will be boycotting Lexington, that's for certain. And the "They'll come back statement", I have yet to step back into places that have gone smoke free, so don't lump us all into the same category. Some people can stick by their convictions.
I will be boycotting Lexington, that's for certain. And the "They'll come back statement", I have yet to step back into places that have gone smoke free, so don't lump us all into the same category. Some people can stick by their convictions.
Just genuinely disengenuous.
So Gretchen, does that mean you smoked through your pregnancy?
I smoked for 13 years and during that time I was always courteous about not contaminating people's space with my smoke. I don't see how there's even an argument about why it shouldn't be allowed in public establishments. Smoking never should've been allowed in public places in the first place but now, because it is legal, it's a fiasco getting it illegal. Smoking (and second-hand smoke) causes so many health problems and I think it's extremely selfish of smokers to overlook the facts with their selfish desire to satisfy their own habit.
There's a smoke free bar in Lexington and there's always a line out the door. I don't think any businesses will suffer from this ban.
piggie - I agree with "leave my freedoms alone". Breathing non-polluted air is one of those freedoms I want to preserve.
I smoked for 13 years and during that time I was always courteous about not contaminating people's space with my smoke. I don't see how there's even an argument about why it shouldn't be allowed in public establishments. Smoking never should've been allowed in public places in the first place but now, because it is legal, it's a fiasco getting it illegal. Smoking (and second-hand smoke) causes so many health problems and I think it's extremely selfish of smokers to overlook the facts with their selfish desire to satisfy their own habit.
There's a smoke free bar in Lexington and there's always a line out the door. I don't think any businesses will suffer from this ban.
piggie - I agree with "leave my freedoms alone". Breathing non-polluted air is one of those freedoms I want to preserve.
Does he have a strange bear claw like appendage protruding from his neck? He kep petting it.
artsay...but let me ask you this...here we are , with smoking legal in establishments...in the last ten yers, I can think of only a handful of times that I felt "offended" by smokers. I can think of many more times when the drunk in the bar was offending me with his behavior and loud mouth.
I just don't see this as some water shed issue that will make a difference. If all people, smokers and non smokers, were courteous like you were in your day, then this wouldn't even be an issue. A little smoke never killed me. I hate loud dogs and cigarette butts at the crag more than indoor smoking...
I just don't see this as some water shed issue that will make a difference. If all people, smokers and non smokers, were courteous like you were in your day, then this wouldn't even be an issue. A little smoke never killed me. I hate loud dogs and cigarette butts at the crag more than indoor smoking...
Positive vibes brah...positive vibes.