Re: Well, they went and did it.

Michael Stanley wrote:

My guess is they (bar "lobby" )didn't sufficiently grease the right palms whereas the bowling alley guys did. Maybe one of the Councilmen's Brother_In_Law owns some lanes and doesn't want to give up the business.This will make bowling alley bars quite popular, won't it?
All this is ,of course just the beginning. Ohio,it would appear, is set to have a vote next November on a statewide ban. See, that way, those 'enlightend" souls that ban it now won't have to worry about business suffering because they don't allow smoking. You simply will have no private property rights statewide! Such a wonderful, wonderful deal! Coming this November to a ballot box near you!You can vote away the rights of others! It is for their own good after all. I want to hurl.
Mike Stanley

Did you read Chuck Stanion's editorial in the current issue of "Pipes and Tobaccos?" He was smoking a pipe in a nearly empty public park when he was confronted by two outraged female citizens, who informed him (incorrectly) that smoking was illegal. He advised them to call the police and they proceeded to do so, only to leave in a huff when they found out they were wrong.

Conclusion: given the level of outrageously untruthful propaganda (or is that redundant?) that has been pounded into the public consciousness over the past decade, smoking *will* soon be illegal, and not only in public places either, nor is their anything we can do about it. :-(

Regards,

Tim  Parker  ...  Heritage in a no-name blast lovat
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