10.29.2009 10:40 am
Yes on Prop. N to protect our children and grandchildren
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Please get out and vote on Tuesday Nov 3 for Propposition N. Our children, patrons and restaurant workers deserve clean air to breathe. I have a very hard time when smokers complain about their rights. They have the right to smoke but not to help kill other people. While I realize this bill is not perfect, we need to start somewhere; and until several municipalities note in this law, it will never pass state wide.
Twenty-nine states are completely smoke-free in public places and Wisconsin will be number 30 in 2010. Even though some bars and restaurants say it will ruin their business, it is not true. Bars and restaurants are thriving in all of those states.
I remember when Ballwin put their no smoking policy in place on January 1 and the O’Charleys closed immediately and said it was because of the no smoking policy, which had not even taken effect yet. Yet now, Ballwin restaurants will tell you it has not hurt their business. Remember, only 23 percent of people smoke.
I have lost a mother, step-mother, uncle, grandfather and grandmother to lung cancer. Please don’t let other people lose their loved ones because we don’t do the right thing. This is not a matter of the government imposing laws on us, it’s a health issue. We have taken lead paint out of houses and asbestos out of schools. Please protect our children and grandchildren by taking second-smoke out of public places.
Darlene Skaggs
Manchester
Thank you, Darlene, for recognizing the truth about Ballwin. While revenues have been going down year by year over the last several, last year, revenues for restaurants and bars went down half as much as Manchester’s did. So much for business going elsewhere because they can’t smoke! Thanks again. VOTE YES ON Prop N!
Drink and eat at home where you can say people can’t smoke. Don’t try to tell private businesses what to do with their property. No one tells you what not to do in your home that is not against the law.
“Good lord” is trying to have it both ways….out of one side of his mouth, he says business owners can do whatever they want, then out of the other, he says they have to follow the law….hmmmm….why do we have laws against robbery, assault, and murder, even on private property? Oh, that’s right, to protect the public. Prop N does the same thing.
I thought protecting our children & grandchildren was last week’s bromide. Didn’t we agree to throw that overboard and wrap a $100 trillion dollar debt chain around their neck? The only break these poor souls will have is if they legalize pot - they can bong the days away and maybe cool their impulses to get even with their parents’ / grandparents’ looting.
Hey all you anti smoking dummies, cigarettes are the least of your worries in a restaurant. Especially the franchise chains. Look at the nutrition facts on their “food”. You ought to be arrested for child endangerment for bringing you children and grandchildren into one of these places. Any way I’m tired of listening to your loud and obnoxious kids screaming in these places. Perhaps they should be the next thing to be banned.
Great point Bob, let’s just ban smoking all together since it is harming someone even if done in one’s home. Why do you have the right to tell someone else what legal activities are allowed on their private property? Would you like it if someone comes onto your property and started telling you what to do? Remember, you don’t have the right to patronize any restaurant/bar, since you can be thrown out by the owner at any time.
I quit smoking in 1993. I would love to see all smoking stopped but,
IT IS NOT THE GOVERNMENT’S JOB TO PROTECT YOU FROM YOUR OWN STUPIDITY!
Stop being a hypocrite. If you don’t like the smoke, don’t patronize the establishment.
Big John, you are so on target. I have come to the conclusion that if liberals are this intolerant then maybe we should have them all spayed….lol
Maybe the sign on the establishment should be “If you are an intolerant non-smoker then you are more than welcome to go to one of my competitors place which is located at XXXXXXX, We believe in freedom and choice here”
Oh, I dont smoke but I do believe in freedom and choice! Oh, my choice, not a liberals choice to make for me!
Dave-
Let’s VOTE on it, that’s pretty fair …
So after so many have been indoctrinated in the schools, and fools like your side creates so many victims, you now want to vote on freedom? Go change the Constitution first. There are reasons why we are NOT a Democracy. You have NO right to tell any business whether they can allow smokers. This is about freedom. Its too bad you people have NO clue what it is.