Damn anti smoking fanatics! Bars can't serve food and allow smoking? WTF!

[Dis]

It seems question 5 passed. I think the anti smoking fanatics confused people with question 4. Now bars can't serve food and allow smoking at the same time? WTF? This will also affect my place of business as well. I guess we have to stop serving food. Which sucks, as I can get free food at work. .

At least that's what it seems like to me. I haven't heard on any word what this passage will mean. But it seems to me like 1000's of cooks will be out of a job. People will be driving home even drunker because they don't have any food to absorb the alcohol. Or there will be more drunk drivers as people drive themselves to taco bell, then drive themselves back to the bar.

And many of our top restaurants also have bars attached to them. Including one our former lt. governor owned (Lorraine Hunt). Bootlegger, Black Mountain Grill- both are considered good restaurants. Are they going to have to close or go smoke free now? I can't believe this. Stupid voters. I think they got confused between question 4 and 5.

The funny thing is I don't smoke and don't like cigarrette smoke. But I like to grab a fish n' chips at my local bar. Now I apparantly can't.

[Wezil]

Re: Damn anti smoking fanatics! Bars can't serve food and allow smoking? WTF!

Originally posted by Dis
Are they going to have to close or go smoke free now?

Your jurisdiction is waaaayy behind the curve if this was the debate!

What were questions 4 and 5 Dis?

[Asher]

I guess we have to stop serving food. Which sucks, as I can get free food at work. .

Wouldn't the smarter thing be to ban smoking?

Your company likely makes money off the food, but not off the smokes.

Smoking is bad, mkay.

[SlowwHand]

Welcome to the 21st Century. Sucks, doesn't it?

[MRT144]

what a stupid conclusion. dis, you really think bars will stop serving food rather than stop people from smoking?

and cooks wont be out of a job. jesus dis. jesus

[Jon Miller]

DC and much of MD banned smoking in bars.. this is a similiar measure.

JM

[Arrian]

Having been a smoker and a non-smoker, I never really had much problem with the idea of banning smoking in restaurants. Bars moreso, but even then what is the big deal about popping outside for a smoke? It saves the non-smokers from having to breath it in, for the most part.

Having said that, I don't understand why there couldn't be a special permit for a "smoking establishment." Those who worked their would sign waivers, and patrons would clearly be choosing to come to a smoking bar...

Meh.

-Arrian

[Dis]

Originally posted by MRT144
what a stupid conclusion. dis, you really think bars will stop serving food rather than stop people from smoking?

and cooks wont be out of a job. jesus dis. jesus

I don't think any of you guys realize what a smokers paradise Las Vegas really is. I have yet to find a girlfriend that doesn't smoke (not that there have been many ). Most women in my city smokes. And of course most men do as well.

[Dis]

Smoking has always been integral to our community. I should note that casinos are exempt from this measure. Casinos basically control the goverment anyways, so we knew they wouldn't have to deal with this.

If anything, the casinos wanted this to pass to drive more people to drink and eat at their casinos. . I hate casinos.

[SlowwHand]

Bars here are pretty much exempt from the tyranny.

[MRT144]

the biggest issue i have with smoking in bars is as follows...

waiters, bartenders, etc etc in general are not provided health insurance by the establishment. they must rely on either private insurance o.o.p or state health services, and more likely than not its the state. the cost of caring for these employees is passed on to the tax payers. the easy thing to do then is cut a work hazard and the cause of this care. its preventitive health care.

[Asher]

I've never been happier and the bars have never been busier since they've banned smoking where I've lived.

And there was a huge hubub by bar owners when it happened about how it would destroy them...

[SlowwHand]

Gay bars are different.

[DRoseDARs]

No on 4, Yes on 5

4 was the one that banished smoking from all public places EXCEPT bars and casinos. 5 banished it from bars that handle food and areas outside the gaming portions of casinos. Sorry, but suck it up Dis. And look on the bright side: It still has to pass again in '08 before becoming law.

[MRT144]

yeah, less closeted homosexuals