Smoking Ban Going Down In Flames

[mrjarrell]

Looks like enough stuff got amended to the statewide smoking ban to make it unpalatable to most of those who would have been for it. It's watered down a whole lot and I'm willing to bet it dies off this go around. Too bad, Mitch. You won't get your smoking ban before you're out of office.

How a Smoking Ban Goes Down in Flames | Indiana Barrister

 

[BigMatt]

Oh, too bad the government can't overreach again.

 

[jdhaines]

I hate smoking, it's disgusting and I wish people would stop. I'm glad restaurants choose to segregate the smoking sections so I don't have to smell it.


That said... The state should not be in the business of banning it. Glad this is getting killed. It's a damn slippery slope when we start banning things we don't like. It makes us no better than the people we all are against.

 

[spec4]

Even where the smoking is segregated, my wife and I can smell it. We avoid places like that, plenty of places are no smoking and that's where we choose to spend our money.

 

[jbombelli]

Looks like they're pulling the football away right as Charlie Brown goes running up to kick it.

 

[MACHINEGUN]

Smoking is disgusting and I wonder why people do it.. they must want to die quicker!

 

[printcraft]

YEAH FOR FREEDOM!

Yes, they can die quicker.
They have that right if they want it.

Every law passed is a further infringement on your freedoms.

 

[ghunter]

Look! He's smoking! Get the pitchforks and torches!

 

[eldirector]

For ONCE all this B.S. politicking may work in OUR favor, and kill some bad legislation.

This has nothing to do with smoking being "bad" - we all know it is. This is all about the role of government in the lives of private citizens. It just isn't their business.

 

[bobzilla]

I hate smoking, it's disgusting and I wish people would stop. I'm glad restaurants choose to segregate the smoking sections so I don't have to smell it.


That said... The state should not be in the business of banning it. Glad this is getting killed. It's a damn slippery slope when we start banning things we don't like. It makes us no better than the people we all are against.

This.

 

[strahd71]

For ONCE all this B.S. politicking may work in OUR favor, and kill some bad legislation.

This has nothing to do with smoking being "bad" - we all know it is. This is all about the role of government in the lives of private citizens. It just isn't their business.

i agree! smoking is disgusting, but yea more government control....... yea not so good. government control stinks worse than smokers....

jake

 

[Carmelbythecorn]

Is this a bill about banning smoking, or about eliminating private property rights?

I'm just sayin'....

 

[Scutter01]

Smoking has done nothing but cause grief for me. I don't smoke. I never have, and I never will. I've lost three family members to lung cancer resulting from smoking. I've been burned and had clothes ruined countless times by careless smokers. I grew up in a house filled with smoke 24x7. Not a day goes by that I don't see someone littering cigarette butts out the window of their car. I can't walk five feet down a forest trail without seeing cigarette litter. The smell of the smoke gets everywhere. It gets in my clothes, in my hair, everywhere. I can smell it on the highway when a car 100 yards ahead of me has a smoker in it. I DESPISE smoking.

I STILL don't think the government has any business banning it.

 

[OneBadV8]

Smoking has done nothing but cause grief for me. I don't smoke. I never have, and I never will. I've lost three family members to lung cancer resulting from smoking. I've been burned and had clothes ruined countless times by careless smokers. I grew up in a house filled with smoke 24x7. Not a day goes by that I don't see someone littering cigarette butts out the window of their car. I can't walk five feet down a forest trail without seeing cigarette litter. The smell of the smoke gets everywhere. It gets in my clothes, in my hair, everywhere. I can smell it on the highway when a car 100 yards ahead of me has a smoker in it. I DESPISE smoking.

I STILL don't think the government has any business banning it.

I agree with scutter01

Sure would be nice if the Gov't allowed us to have a free Country again

 

[SSGSAD]

Smoking has done nothing but cause grief for me. I don't smoke. I never have, and I never will. I've lost three family members to lung cancer resulting from smoking. I've been burned and had clothes ruined countless times by careless smokers. I grew up in a house filled with smoke 24x7. Not a day goes by that I don't see someone littering cigarette butts out the window of their car. I can't walk five feet down a forest trail without seeing cigarette litter. The smell of the smoke gets everywhere. It gets in my clothes, in my hair, everywhere. I can smell it on the highway when a car 100 yards ahead of me has a smoker in it. I DESPISE smoking.

I STILL don't think the government has any business banning it.

AMEN !!!!!

 

[LEaSH]

I suppose they will ban smoking someday in the future. But for now, business can decide for themselves - and many have decided to disallow smoking in their bar or restaurant (+1).

Learn this from the future smoking ban: The people that push hard on this (that is: the lobbyists the lawyers and the authoritarians), they will not retire to some far away island together and congratulate each other and bask in their victory against private businesses.

They will stay in Indiana and move on to the next thing that bothers them when they need something to do with their lives.

That next thing could be firearms, or anything that they feel like attacking.

 

[strahd71]

someone mentioned "the slippery slope" earlier. i think it would be more like a ski jump or mountain for us to tumble down more than a slope.

jake

 

[insanemonkey]

I will be glad when the ban goes down in flames. It has nothing to do about smoking and everything to do with limiting property rights. I do not smoke, but I do not have to go to places that allow it. I don't allow it in my house, but if you choose to, then go right ahead and do it on your property.

Politicians could have such a sweet deal. If they would show up and pass a balanced budget and deal with whatever little stuff needs to be dealt with, they could spend most of their time on the golf course. All they need to do to make their lives and the citizens lives better is to stop putting their noses in other people's business.

 

[Bunnykid68]

Smoking a cigarette right now in support of it going down in flames

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Good news!