WOW!!!

[furrbear]

The City of Dallas just passed a City Wide Smoking Ban

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[djmattconsola.livejournal.com]

Wow. Great for them. It made such a difference here in California. As someone who is very very allergic to cig smoke, I used to have to take large quantities of allergy meds just to go to work at clubs and bars. I even had to quit one bar after 6 years because the fans that tried to circulate the air was in the booth I worked. So all the crap air came right at me for 6 hours straight. I know in SF, our business went through the roof after they passed it. Other than smokers trying to make a point by piling up butts out front in the ash trays for a few weeks, I loved being able to eat in a restaurant or go to a club and not have to frabreeze my clothes or immediately wash my jeans every day to get rid of the stank. I wish they'd just out law the damn things all together.

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

Dave and I used to live in OC post ban. We know what it was like.

We don't go out very much around Arlington because a few vocal businesses still win the fights. Funny that they never consider the increased business that other locales with bans have seen.

[major7.livejournal.com]

I was in NC last month and went to a restaurant.

Smoking or non-smoking? We were asked at the entrance.

Are you kidding me in 2008?

I almost died.

[genxcub.livejournal.com]

They only stopped asking that here in Vegas last year. Now you can't smoke where food is served, except in casinos...

[major7.livejournal.com]

Ex cig-smoker here so I actually don't care, but so many people are just freaks about it and I thought, at least in restaurants, that cig smoking was no longer an option. WRONG!

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

It's still that way in Arlington. We don't go out much because of it.

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Now Addison will truly be Dallas' smoking section. Still, I'll be more likely to go out to the bars in the gayborhood now.

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

Addison is to Dallas as Arlington is to Fort Worth.

They won't change until the state enacts something.

Still, Dallas is the 23rd city in the state to do this.

[use2bshy.livejournal.com]

I thought addison went smoke free awhile back?

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

It would be news to some of the Dallas City Council who today claimed that smokers would flee across the border to Addison. eggwards comment from earlier would suggest that Addison has no smoking ban.

[ruralrob.livejournal.com]

This is good. Other places need to smarten up.

I used to smoke cigarttes, but now I've come to recognize how much smokers stink. And I mean that literally, rather than anything else.

[joebehrsandiego.livejournal.com]

John - thank you for the heads-up!

This means I can be more serious about travel and job-search activities for Dallas now. I know it sounds petty to some, but after living in CA it would be very hard for me to visit or (especially) relocate to a place where there wasn't some sort of smoking ban in place.

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

One of the reasons we don't go out very much:

"Two? Smoking or non-smoking?"

"Ummm, do you have a breathing section?"

Yeah, we got spoiled from living in CA.

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

I presume this is a restaurant/bar thing?

I do think the places trying to tell people they cannot smoke in their own condos and/or apartments is absolutely OVER THE LINE, though. (In the common areas of the building? Understood. In one's own freaking home? NOT!)

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

public buildings

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[use2bshy.livejournal.com]

I think this is SOOOOO wrong. Wherther I am a smoker or not The buisness proprieter should be the one to decide whether he wants to allow smoking in his buisness establishment or not. People can make the choice whether to give that person their buisness or not. Same goes for someone who cooses to work in such an establishment.

This is SOOOOO wrong

[ursine1.livejournal.com]

Except that this is a public health issue.

Chuck

Re: This is SOOOOO wrong

[use2bshy.livejournal.com]

..and thats the only public health issue we face day to day? No its not.

Again I say it should be a decision by the buisness owner and the customer, not government. But then Government has been chipping away at freedoms for so long now we don't really care anymore.

[hippierage.livejournal.com]

well that is just ignunt.
Sorry but it is.

[cubziz.livejournal.com]

Really? Wow. That'll make TBRU rather interesting.