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Old 07-11-2007, 02:00 PM  
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While I stopped smoking I do not agree with picking on them.

In my state at least you can barely smoke anywhere anyways and it must be 500 ft from any entrance as well assuming you can smoke outside (some cities you can not). I really feel you should leave it up to the business itself and let competition decide. If there is a demand for smoke free establishments they would pop up and supply and demand would take over without the need to boycot one over the other.

Lastly I find the taxing crazy, specially since a great deal of smokers are more on the poor side than non smokers. This tax is just taxing the poor to help assist the poor. Does not really seem that right to me.
competition said years ago that it wont work thats why the laws are here no smoker will go to a non smoking club and here in chicago i would say in a club 30-50% of people are smoking the % of smokers you see once you hit the clubs is alot higher then with the general population.

95% of the restaurants here you could smoke at before the non smoking ban idiots that cant get thier way in normal life go bitch to the government to tell people how to live and behave.
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