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  • #46
    While it achieves an end I find desirable, the means are very objectionable and, frankly, quite fascist. Let business owners decide if they want a legal activity like smoking in their premises, and let employees decided if they want to work in such a place or not.

    It makes as much sense banning smoking in bars as it does banning drinking in them.
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    • #47
      Boris.

      Or, for a more in-between option, why not have specially permitted smoking bars?

      -Arrian
      grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

      The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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      • #48
        Or just make a cash cow for the city out of requiring a smoking license, just as one needs a liquor license. Plenty of bars will buy them, generating revenue, and many won't, to keep non-smoking customers. Seems to be a reasonable compromise.
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        • #49
          Exactly what I meant, actually.

          -Arrian
          grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

          The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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          • #50
            If the officials in NY are this bad, surely it would be better to hand everything over to the Mafia - after all they have years of experience in "public service".
            Only feebs vote.

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            • #51
              Why would the government make it illegal for bartenders to give out drinks?
              “Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….” (Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)

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              • #52
                Originally posted by HershOstropoler
                Why would the government make it illegal for bartenders to give out drinks?
                I suspect some misapplied theory that buybacks deprive the city of its proper tax revenue, and that they encourage public intoxication.

                IMO, it would be akin to telling a prostitute in Nevada she is forbidden from having free sex with someone because it would be denying the state its tax revenue on her porking a john.
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