I'm conducting a little straw poll to see what people reactions are as our local town just did this and I have to make a poll and stuff for my Politics class... Please just answer the poll truthfully, yes or no.

Basically its a question about a local smoking ban, if you would support it or not, it would mean that people could not smoke in public restaraunts, where alcohol is not at least 50% of their sales, so basically anywhere except a bar or "private club".

The actual question is(it wouldn't all fit in the poll question box):

Would you be for or against a public smoking ban, that would ban people from smoking in public restaraunts where alcohol sales are less than 50% of their revenue?


Thanks

 

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I know they have already started that in the state of florida.

 

I support it. I manage bars here in NYC, but I dont smoke. We've had the ban for a few years now. I feel healther. When I started working in bars I began to get random rashes and eczema. Since the ban the symptoms went away. Business hasnt suffered here.

 

here in cali, you can't smoke in public places... no resteraunts, bars, not even inside buildings. Being a non smoker, I love it! Hell yea I support it. Just went to vegas, and it took me by surprise that everyone was smoking inside, till i remembered it was just a cali thing.
Eyal

 

not to mention people walking down the street with half-empty 40's just taking swigs whenever they felt like it. ooooh, what a town.

 

some counties here in michigan have banned smoking in restraunts. im not a smoker so it doesnt bother me, i dont have a tendency to lean one way or the other. i can tolerate a little second hand, as long as its not thick

 

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i have 15 blankets on my bed but somehow i seem to get d's in my zoo-ology class. i mean honestly when you eat cake for breakfast is it entirely necessary to scrape the icing off and put it in your orangejuice, the orangejuice has 100% of your vitamins. if three rabbits jumped out of a burrow and four jumped in then how many would be left? obviously the answer is 19. how many red blue birds does it take to lull a one leged centipede to sleep?

freshlax944

 

 

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We've had the ban for a few years here in NY (ban here includes bars). Prior to the enactment plenty of people complained all the bars would go out of business (yeah right). Since it's been enacted though I've yet to hear a complaint, and as far as I can tell the bars are doing just fine. If anything they're doing better now that non-smokers don't mind the atmosphere as much.

 

I would be against the ban, I am a smoker. One thing though, I do not condone smoking, as hypocrytical as that sounds. Smoking is bad for people, but only the person smoking. Many people don't know this, but the "studies" that the Amerincan Heart Association, as well as the American Lung Association as well as Smoke Free Educational Services among others, are bogus. True, the EPA did do a study in 1993, which all of these organizations go by, and it stated that 3,000 people die annually in the U.S. due to second hand smoke. Well, in 1998, a Federal Court, with Judge Osteen presiding, ruled that the study was basically crap. In the ruling, Osteen is quoted, "EPA's procedural failure constitutes a violation of the law." And later the ruling states, "..the EPA cherrypicked its data." Basically they intentionally made the study to oppose smoking and secondhand smoke, giving anti-smokers a rallying cry, alas, its crap. Feel free to do your own research, I have. I still DO NOT smoke in front of or near children, just out of morality and consideration towards them and their families. But if I go to a club, or when I am just out, and it is an ADULT atmosphere, if I want to smoke, I should be able to. And without having to go outside when it is winter and freeze my @$$ off. That's my piece.

 

Non-smoker but against a ban. I can choose my place to eat with my wallet. If they don't have a good non-smoking section then my wallet chooses to not go back but it's my choice and by my freedom.