any bar you can smoke in

Tipsy McStagger · Post by **Tipsy McStagger** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 7:58 am

Borracho wrote:Just an anoying tug here... I used to smoke, for about 10 years or so, and am really glad I quit. But, that was my choice and I am violently opposed to anyone telling me I need to quit any of my other socially unacceptable habits, I'm sure posting here is one.

Anyway, what you need to understand about a smoking ban is that it is simply part of government establishing the fact that it knows what is best for you, and that it will use the force of law (legal violence) to force you to agree.

If you don't like this, you need to tell your local politicians, and understand the fact that whether its practical or not, you are a Libertarian. Anyway, I want another beer, and that's still not regulated by my government, so shove off...

Borrraco

No, I'm not a Libertarian. I'm a Republican. I want as little government interference with my life, and my tax dollars. But thanks for thinking I was one of you. Libertarian is just Republican Lite anyway, isn't it? ;)

Linkster · Post by **Linkster** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:09 pm

They haven't banned it yet, so smoke heavily at the bar!

mr.dirty pants · Post by **mr.dirty pants** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:28 pm

MeanOldLady wrote:california and its laws. they make you go home at 2, anybody who wants a smoke has to go outside. i've found several of these, and they're generally divey little shitholes, i mean shithole in the fondest sense possible. found another one of these last night. the barkeep straight up asked me and my chum if we needed an ashtray. by ashtray, he meant a rusty altoids can.

Its not a dive w/o a blue haze of smoke.

Palinka (RIP) · Post by **Palinka (RIP)** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 5:08 am

Invest money in spittoons; they are bound to make a comeback now that snuff and chaw are the legal way to ingest nictotine with ones bar bought booze.

Frankennietzsche · Post by **Frankennietzsche** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:31 pm

The smoking "ban" that they passed here is so rediculously full of loopholes nad most of those loopeholes had to do with alcohol. Basically, it just banned smoking in every place but bars.

Palinka (RIP) · Post by **Palinka (RIP)** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:50 pm

Well, Kentucky has always been one of the more sensible states, in that respect.

Tipsy McStagger · Post by **Tipsy McStagger** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:07 am

I've decided that when I have to go outdoors to smoke a butt, I'll comply to an extent. But what I smoke will NOT be tobacco. If there's 25 people outside the bar puffing away, who's gonna notice that one of the people is smoking a joint?

Linkster · Post by **Linkster** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:24 am

Tipsy McStagger wrote:I've decided that when I have to go outdoors to smoke a butt, I'll comply to an extent. But what I smoke will NOT be tobacco. If there's 25 people outside the bar puffing away, who's gonna notice that one of the people is smoking a joint?

All of them!?!

don't panic · Post by **don't panic** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 8:39 pm

we can still smoke in 18 plus establishments, I almost didn't care about the fern bars and resturants, but when they took smoking away from the wafflehouse I almost cried.

Phirefighter · Post by **Phirefighter** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 9:02 am

Every year for the past 4 Nevada, and Las Vegas has been pushing for no smoking in public areas. It's proposterous to say the least. If I'm down $250 on the blackjack table (which happens frequently) and am trying to enjoy my cocktail, the last thing *I* want is to be told I CAN'T smoke.

It's bad enough almost all the poker rooms in Las Vegas are smoke free now. I think there are a select few rooms left where you can smoke, but they are local dirty casinos mostly.

anyway, my two cents

Rock

GSG · Post by **GSG** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:05 pm

I like the snuff idea. I shall buy a pewter snuff box!

Willicus · Post by **Willicus** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:33 pm

don't panic wrote:but when they took smoking away from the wafflehouse I almost cried

Now that's just fucking cruel. I don't smoke, but it's just not Waffle House if it doesn't smell like grease and smoke!

Tipsy McStagger · Post by **Tipsy McStagger** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:39 am

Today is day 6 of the smoking ban in NJ. Luckily, it hasn't been cold or hasn't rained yet. But I must comment, it's far more attractive for any business to have people hanging outside their establishment puffing away. That's an establishment I want to enter <roll eyes>.

MeanOldLady · Post by **MeanOldLady** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 8:46 pm

Barca wrote:
MeanOldLady wrote:apparently the south bay is chock-full of bars that laugh in the face of CA's smoke-free laws. i hit 5 bars here in the past two weeks (or maybe it was 6, memories are a tad hazy), and 3 of them allowed smoking. i think i'm going to move here.
In California, in the bigger cities (SF, LA, SD....) 85-90% of the bars tend to comply with the smonking ban. As you get further away those numbers drops. I've read that in several cities in the South Bay compliance is as low as 55-60%.

once AGAIN we were in the south bay with nick plumber and co. with his friend smoking freely in a bar without reprimand. do they just not give a fuck in those parts? to hell with korea town, i need to get an apt out there.

Post by **Oggar** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:38 am

MeanOldLady wrote:once AGAIN we were in the south bay with nick plumber and co. with his friend smoking freely in a bar without reprimand. do they just not give a fuck in those parts? to hell with korea town, i need to get an apt out there.

I thought you were in LA and the Bay Area was San Fran... there wasn't a HUGE earthquake I didn't hear about was there?

any bar you can smoke in

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