La Vernia adopts smoking ban in restaurants, businesses

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I'm starting a "speak easy" for smokers! I'll get back to you with the secret location...

 

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The answer to your question..."prohibition"...The FEDS tried that back in the early 20th Century and all it did was create a lot of millionaires (i.e. John Kennedy ... Read More 

The answer to your question..."prohibition"...The FEDS tried that back in the early 20th Century and all it did was create a lot of millionaires (i.e. John Kennedy SR, et al), criminals, increased supply, raised prises. Prohibition was so unsuccessful that sane people realized that it is better to legalize it and put controls on it.

 

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Why not just make any type of tobacco illegal? It is also bad for you to drink too much. Maybe we should ban alcohol. Oh wait. We did. Now it's legal too, again. How about ... Read More 

Why not just make any type of tobacco illegal? It is also bad for you to drink too much. Maybe we should ban alcohol. Oh wait. We did. Now it's legal too, again. How about those drink filled rooms. I mean, we don't need to expose our kids to that. Make the towns smoke and drink free. Let's vote. We all know most of these red-necks cannot think for themselves. And we don't have time to pick a smoking or non-smoking place to go. Easier to ban whatever we don't like, even if it is legal.

 

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About damn time. The rest of the world did this about 15 years ago. I understand 2nd hand smoke can cause cancer,emphasema,bronchitis,heart disease in others. Not to mention ... Read More 

About damn time. The rest of the world did this about 15 years ago. I understand 2nd hand smoke can cause cancer,emphasema,bronchitis,heart disease in others. Not to mention the large number of people, like myself, that gets red, irritated eyes and stuffy sinus around hateful, clods that want to smoke and blow it on everyone. Also, smoke gets in clothes and stinks. I wish there was about a 6 months mandatory prison sentence and a $1000 fine. My words to smokers: if you are weak brained enough to participate in this dangerous, filthy habit, at least you can do it on your own property.

 

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WOW, what a joke, you people are hypocrits and the constitution is not something you can change at your whim...ok you want to stop smokeing fine bnt you are doing it illegaly, ... Read More 

WOW, what a joke, you people are hypocrits and the constitution is not something you can change at your whim...ok you want to stop smokeing fine bnt you are doing it illegaly, you are inacting a descrimnitory law and i am appalled...what gives you the right to tell a buisness owner what and how they can smoke are not in their own place...if you dont like it, either way don't go there, but you are wrong...give me a ticket, ill go to court and say simply put someone in a closed garrage and smoke a pack of cigs do they walk out or die, do the same with a car running they die...so if you ae going to ban cigs you must ban automobiles you are WRONG.

 

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Oh the good old days in LV when the "Wooden Indian" and the "Highway House" (after-hours) was in their prime!

Hard Liquor, long stories, short ... Read More 

Oh the good old days in LV when the "Wooden Indian" and the "Highway House" (after-hours) was in their prime!

Hard Liquor, long stories, short skirts, smoking in the front, poker in the rear...

Bunch of Tea Sipper's now! :^(

 

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I am so glad we didn't buy a home in La Vernia. It looked like a nice place to live. Nice communinity.
Beautiful homes. Too bad the city has been taken over by nanny state ... Read More 

I am so glad we didn't buy a home in La Vernia. It looked like a nice place to live. Nice communinity.
Beautiful homes. Too bad the city has been taken over by nanny state liberals.

 

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The ban is a good thing it keeps that stinking smelling ugly unwanted in your face smoke that some smokers blow your way without a thought of your space.I hope the new mayor ... Read More 

The ban is a good thing it keeps that stinking smelling ugly unwanted in your face smoke that some smokers blow your way without a thought of your space.I hope the new mayor and council will consider this ban for the betterment of the city,and yes let us not forget the bambinos,never forget the bambinos.

 

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My last post left out the ethnic groups that receive
the most pandering. The problem with "the children"
started a few generations ago when people stopped
treating ... Read More 

My last post left out the ethnic groups that receive
the most pandering. The problem with "the children"
started a few generations ago when people stopped
treating them as little adults.

 

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No, Obama stole 'for the chiiiildren' from the Clintons, actually. They used it in just about every speech.

And now, just about every snake oil salesman uses the chiiiildren ... Read More 

No, Obama stole 'for the chiiiildren' from the Clintons, actually. They used it in just about every speech.

And now, just about every snake oil salesman uses the chiiiildren to sell us something we don't need, or raise taxes, and take more of our freedom.

Seatbelts, bike helmets, fat free food, smoking bans, assault rifle bans, higher taxes, bond issues.... the list is endless.

If you want to protect your CHIIIIILDREN from smoke, don't take them to bars or restaurants that have smoking sections without good ventilation systems! How hard is that?
Take a little personal responsibility for raising your own kids and quit looking for someone else via government to do it for you. You produced them. You raise them and educate them and provide for their damn healthcare too!!!

If you can't afford them, DON'T PRODUCE THEM.

It's time people woke up to the fact that having children comes with a VERY high cost that SOMEBODY must bear. It is not the responsibility and goal of government, at least not our government, to provide for your family and/or your mistakes. The popular culture reinforces that myth, and politicians like to say it is because it buys them votes, but it is not.

It is your right to pursue happiness but it's not your right to have it paid for by someone else through taxation, or some stupid nanny state freedom stealing law.