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User	DrkRomeo_sGirl | 2006-02-18 |
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Message	ill smoke anywhere anytime. ANd im not even of age.

User	abuzzbuzz92 | 2006-02-16 |
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Message	I think that it is one of the best bans ever. I mean why should innocent people suffer beacuse of those who are practically committing suicide. They should not be the ones suffering. Those people who want to be social out casts can continue their hobbies, but I think that this is the best way to make many stop, as they are not in their homes too many hours of the day.

User	Magnolia Steele | 2006-02-15 |
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Message	Ain’t that honest truth! Why stop what pays for your yearly trips to anywhere in the world and keeping you living in style...die poor people die! lol. Maggie

User	Rokhal | 2006-02-15 |
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Message	I can say one thing about smoking taxes---cigarrette prices are now so high that all the poor people in my area are rolling them themselves. That means no filters, that means more particles and more lung cancer. The government gets revenue from cigarrette sales. Our sanctimonious tax system encourages our poor to poison themselves (worse). But we’re never going to ban smoking outright, not while Congress can milk it.

User	Kwanying | 2006-02-15 |
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Message	I think that these smoking bans are alright... Many people have astma, and cant really come to a lot of places because there are to much smoke. And its also good for those people who have stopped smoking, now they can come at these places without smelling the smoke which might could make them start smoking again. I just think that there should be some place where it would be allowed to smoke. But then again, there will probably always be some people that doesnt really care about these laws. So lets see if these bans will hold. Kwanying...

User	sinjen | 2006-02-15 |
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Message	actually the bar staff if standing outside smoking and freezing, cursing the government whom made the law, and the law was made because canadian government pays there health care, it had less to do with nonsmokers rights then what you might think. besides there are allways solutions and compromises that could be considered. as i said, i live in michigan, there is a auction house here that but in a small room with plastic walls like the airports have for smokers, it is well venalated and noone whom works there that doesnt want to go in goes in. this is simply an alternative to forcing people outside into the elements.

User	sinjen | 2006-02-15 |
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Message	i live on the canadian boarder in michigan. in ontario canada they have a smoking ban in bars, restaurants, ect... for the most part i agree, but not with the bar. i know a lot of people whom arnt smokers that do smoke when they drink. if a person is in a bar, there allready drinking alcohol so i dont think the whole health issure should be applied in this case. i am a smoker myself, my boyfriend isnt, we do sit in the non smoker section of restaurants, i do not smoke in the car, and at home i limit smoking to the bar or outside. i dont have a problem with non smokers rights, but smokers should have a few rights to.

User	adnil | 2006-02-14 |
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Message	No flack from me Maggie I’m a smoker,and I do agree with most of the laws but hey lets face it when someone tells me I can’t smoke in my own home or car(I know what an astray is for I’ve never throwin a cig out a window in my life) then I think that is just going a little to damn far,I don’t smoke around people who have kids an not around my own grandsand I subport the envirorment and all that, but don’t you guys maybe think that our rights are being taken away ever so slowly that know body is going to realize it until there all gone and by then it will be just to late cause Big Brother has had his way anyway thats my thought on this

User	Sasha Lynn | 2006-02-14 |
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Message	In Madison, Wisconsin, a smoking ban was placed on bars and restraunts. At first people complained but then oppositon died down. the ban has hurt local businesses in that some people who usualy had a drink and a cig don’t come if its cold outside. on the other hand, it hasn’t been hurt as much as people had anticipated. people will come for a drink and either do without or go outside despite the sub-zero temps here on the frozen tundra :>. my sister gets horribly sick when she has to be near cig smoke for a longer peroid of time and my family was unable to eat out for a while. with the ban, we can actucally go somewhere and not worry that she’ll start hacking up a lung or throw up or something to that degree of nasty-ness. i do sympathize for the smokers though but hey, if it makes someone sick, give it up! SASHA LYNN

User	| 2006-02-14 |
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Message	Here in Wa state they just passed a law that there’s no smoking inside any public building and you have to be 25ft from any entrance or window to smoke. I myself am a smoker but I think it’s a great idea. I have no problem keeping my cigarettes and my habit at home. I don’t even take them with me anymore. Before the ban I would sit in non-smoking sections of restaraunts because I don’t like smoke when I eat, and I would go outside anyway when I was in a bar because I don’t like all the smoke in my face. (i’m a lousy smoker lol) The other night Chell took me out for my birthday and it was the first time I’d been in a Washington bar since the ban. It was clean, clear and at the end of the night my eyes didn’t itch or burn. It was a really nice night. So I’m all for the smoking bans in public. *onetruesmartass*

User	Magnolia Steele | 2006-02-14 |
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Message	You are crazy! I can see them trying not to stand on their right leg...ten feet from a rat. I’m not against smokers, just do not like the smoke imposed on me. I think if you keep making up laws, you will infringe on someones rights. Maggie

User	nameless_nobody | 2006-02-14 |
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Message	there was also a campaign a while ago to ban smoking while driving. and there is a campaign to make it illegal to smoke in your home if you have children. i think both are pretty good ideas but both are unlikly even be considered. im a fan of anything that makes smokers lives more anoying. making them go outside of the pub into the rain is a great idea. i think next we should make them stand on their left leg while smoking. and then make it illegel to smoke if you are within 10 foot of a rat. just be silly with it and make it so unbareably difficult to smoke they all quit.

User	Magnolia Steele | 2006-02-14 |
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Message	Well, most of the places I know of in Louisiana and especially California, there are strict about smoking in places open to the public. You have to be twenty feet or so from the entrance. I’m a non smkoer, so this did not impact me directly. I just have to hurry up and eat so my boyfriend can go and have a smoke when we go out. lol. I’m not sure if our laws are the same, but it sounds pretty damn close. The only place my bf can smoke is, outside or in his car, no smoking is allowed in the apartment either. Poor boy...you think he take the hint and let go of the habit. lol. I understnad them, and in a way support them. Why should someone be in contact with the stuff and get cancer, when they never smoked a day in their life. Or like with my family, break out in Asthma attacks from the smoking. It just is not considerate to inflict the fumes on people and harm them, when they did not ask for any of the health risk that come from being near the fumes of someone smoking around them everywhere they go. I know it’s hard on the smoker, but it saves lives, and that is what matters most to me. I’m sure I will get flack for my opinions now. lol. Maggie