Oh Please, not this crap again! When will you people stop? Move to a place that is all smoke free and you will have succeeded. In the mean time, stop your stupid sojourn against freedom. I will ban together alright, AGAINST IDIOTS LIKE YOU! And I dont even smoke!

superfloater, it will pass, and it will pass soon. just like the smokers. a digusting habit for disgusting people. by the way, have you done anything today except blog? what a zero.

I wish the smoking banners would leave everybody alone. They’re boring and tedious. People are frail and imperfect, some have self-destructive tendencies even. Try to get over it.

If other parts of the country can rack up crushing debt, up-side-down pensions, abandon modern technology and have rolling blackouts (CA, IL…), so can St. Louis.

So, dear libs…I’m wondering if you’re pro-choice? If you’re a proponent of baby-killing and women doing what they want to their bodies, are you for smokers doing what they want with their bodies? Methinks you don’t like the answer.

I actually don’t think that smoking should be prohibited, I just think all of the rest of the drugs should be made legal. As for smoking in public, I won’t blow smoke in your air, please down blow it in mine.

I smoke, try not to do it around anyone other than myself, and sorry if I disgust some people. But why stop at banning habits that YOU find disgusting? Don’t I get a say in this matter?? I’m all about banning obesity…it too is unhealthy, and costs money out of my pocket for health care, and, by the way, fat people disgust ME…lack of discipline and exercise, says I. (Just wondering if Ms. Miller is a big ‘un who ordered diet Cokes with her five course meals in “absolutely gorgeous, as I expected” New England?).
I rarely eat out, and don’t see the necessity in doing so…just like many of you don’t smoke nor see the necessity in doing so. Eating out instead of whipping up a bowl of healthy, God-given plain oatmeal with a side of crawdads I caught myself, washed down with home grown turnip juice or creek water like I do seven nights a week, is just being a spoiled little sissypants. So, I say slap a draconian tax on fast food restaurants (that $5 meal just went up to $7.50, Bubba)…hell, all restaurants, period and you will see people cut back on the calories. No doubt they’ll eventually thank us for looking out for them. And meanwhile we’ll have a bundle to spend on other important stuff, like trying to figure out why guys don’t like to use condoms.

Melissa,

Will I be allowed to smoke in my own bathroom, with the fan on?

If I’m in my car, smoking, with the windows down, and you’re in the car behind mine, also with your window down, will my smoke offend you?

Where does this end? What is an acceptable distance from the smoker and your lungs? While we’re discussing this, how about my Weber Kettle Grill? I love to smoke a brisket or a Boston roast, now and then.

Should restaurants that serve beans offer a ‘no farting section’ for those of us that are offended by the smell, or should they just ban beans?

So Jellio, since you have no problem raising taxes on people how do you feel about raising taxes on your smokes? Is it unfair to you? Is it unfair to the poor?

Why can’t the business owners decide? I’m a democrat, but Big Stupid Brother does not have to police small business owners. I am a non smoker.