Merry Christmas, Wisconsin!
By Mitch Berg
Smoking is now illegal in Minnesota bars, restaurants, and for all I know your basement.
Enjoy your transfats and alcohol while you can!
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October 1st, 2007 at 3:11 pm
I’m torn between my dislilke of the anti-smoking fanatics and my dislike of smokey bars. I’ll mull it over a beer and burner in a Wisc bar.
October 1st, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Everytime I see one of those sanctimonious bastards on those TRUTH commercials, it makes me want to fire up a cigarette and I have never smoked in my life. I also hate coming home from the bar smelling like a ashtray, yet I don’t feel I should use the power of the state to regulate someone else’s business. Until the day the government outlaws tobacco and stops collection the massive tax from the sale there of, any non-smoking laws just reek of hypocrisy.
October 1st, 2007 at 6:33 pm
That’s us. We hate to stink like smoke after going out, but on the other hand, it’s so WRONG to tell proprietors what to do! I’ve shocked my in-laws (not hard to do) by saying I think it should be up to the property owner/tax paying citizen. They’re aghast, which annoys the hell out of me. Surely if something is unhealthy, stinky, “sinful” (their idea, not mine), NO ONE should be allowed to do it…
What about a nice pipe or good cigar? They smell kind of good really…at least at first. When it comes to cigarettes, tho…yuck. So then again, it sure will be nice…
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:54 am
Buzzkill said: “Everytime I see one of those sanctimonious bastards on those TRUTH commercials, it makes me want to fire up a cigarette and I have never smoked in my life.”
Go for it, Buzzkill. Two, three packs a day. Just to show Angryclown!
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:51 am
This is conservatives version of BDS. Some of us are tempted to take up smoking as we’d rather die from lung cancer then give in to the anti-smoking fanatics.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:07 pm
If the state shouldn’t regulate environmental exposure to tobacco smoke in the workplace, should they get out of the workplace safety biz altogether? Dissolve OSHA?
All that’s happened, essentially, is that smoke has lost its longtime exemption.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:41 pm
Angryclown is a fan of those commercials? And a fan of using all that tobacco money to make those commercials? Angryclown is a smoker? Or is angryclown a rabid anti-smoker?
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:12 am
I’ve never smoked in my life (but for the odd cigar, 4-6 times a years), and I don’t plan to start.
And as someone who used to work in bars, I don’t mind fresh air one bit (the better to smell all the vomit and chick-drinks).
But this is a gross violation of property rights; to put it in liberal terms, it’s an Abu-Ghraib-y Holocaust of Property Rights Genocide. (Yes, I know, I still have to explain the notion of “property rights” to them, but…)