Put this in your pipe...

[JustJay]

Yeah, I figured it was coming soon. Pretty soon you will be able to go to a restaraunt and the host/hostess wont have to ask you, "Smoking or Non?".

If smoking is going to have more of a regulation as to where you can smoke, then that might deter some from smoking. But I do know some dedicated smokers.(smoking in a blizzard, waking up to smoke)

[JanB]

btw.. heard this morning on Mississippi News Network that MS lawmakers were drawing up a ban in all public places. So it's coming.

This is great, wonderful news.

[scooter]

There is no smoking in the restaurants in Fl. and I didn't know how much I loved it until I went on a trip to a different state.

[Mike Vande]

Outlaw smokingin public places, yes, that can be easily & successfully inforced. But if you outlaw tobacco, it'll just wind up like pot and alcohol; they'll grow it in South America, smuggle it into the US, organized crime will make a fortune off it, and eventually, the ban will be repealed.
Actually, I think in this instance the government is going about it right; tax the snot out of the folks who buy it, penelaized the companies who produce it, and eventually make it too expensive to take up and too costly to generate a profit. In this modern age, where no one but ignorant savages out in the sticks grow stuff for their own consumption, it will drop out of existance.

[doris]

You picky, picky people.

[Pastor Don]

Hey Brother Jay,
Do you remember our conversation about my Mom and Dad during the Hurricane? Talk about dedicated smokers! Just so the rest of you wont be wondering...
The day Katrina hit, my mom and dad were visiting us in Mississippi. We all wound up at the church building with 27 other folks from the neighborhood. These folk were from all walks of life so some smoked, some dipped ect. During the storm NONE of the neighbors had a problem with not smoking, I mean after all were were inside the church and there was a Hurricane outside. Right about midway, 2 hours or so into the storm, and we had 125 mph winds for 4 1/2 hours, my dad came up "missing" I started looking around and getting kind of worried when one of the men from the community came and got me, put his arm around my shoulder and said: "preacher, I hate to have to tell you this but your dad s outside." Yes, dad had decided to go outside so he could smoke. Not only did he go outside, but was standing directly under a power line that was sagging and only an hour or so latter was on the ground.

But as far as the poll, I voted No because I don't think the government has the right make laws in that regard. I also do not believe the government has the right to make it a law that we HAVE to wear a seat belt in a car, or a helmet on a motorcycle. Please don't misunderstand me, I think these are good things to do, and you are better off if you do them, but it is should be your choice if you are going to do what is good or not. The only time that the government should have the right to make laws on personal issues like that is when it infringes on the rights of others such as smoking in public buildings. I agree that is more than a needed law because as someone said earlier, people have become so me oriented that they have no respect for the rights and needs of others.

Well, I guess I better get off my soapbox now, especially since it wasn't asked for...LOL

God bless...

[DaJudge]

Let's hold Assemblies only in cities that have strict smoking prohibitions.

Doesn't that disqualify most of the south?

Actually, smoking in buildings to which the public has access (restaurants, work places) has been illegal in Georgia for several years. I was against that law when it was being passed. I think that a restaurant owner should be allowed to allow or restrict smoking in his restaurant as he sees fit. If a patron doesn't like it, he is free to leave and not patronize that establishment.

That being said, it has been very pleasant eating in restaurants here since the law passed, without the smoke.

The problem, as Rambo said, is the slippery slope. Where does it all end? If we continue outlawing things that "aren't good for you", before long, you can forget ordering that rack of ribs, or that order of fries. Before you say that that is far fetched, be aware that the city governments of Chicago and NYC are already outlawing restaurants from using oils containing transfats in their recipes.

Are we going to put fat people in "fat gulags" to get the weight off, because being fat is not good for you?

[sweetpea]

Hey I have lived in the south all my life,don't want to go any where else,things are not all bad,we don't all drink moonshine and smoke like dragons,do you need help,check with the people in the south,we have big hearts.

Dajudge I agree 100% with you.I have asthma and the smoke just about kills me,but I don't think the government should control our lives,we live with our choice.