spare me your overblown drama...somehow our country survived smokers for over two hundred years...amazing.

I'm offended that you're offended...oh wait, I'm sorry..I'll be ok as long as you aren't offended...

Steve, c'mon man humans can survive many things at least for awhile. Remember this amigo just 100 years ago the average human lifespan was roughly 20+ years less than it is now. Personally, I want to live to 100 and be healthy along the way. I don't want to survive to 61 and croke out from some form of cancer brought on by ciggy smoke.

On the common courtesy issue Simplex is right. I'm tired of my clothes, hair etc stinking the next day after a night out.

http://www.davehitt.com/facts/banlinks.html

In the case of casinos in Kansas City it could be devastating because alternatives that allow smoking are in such close proximity. If it was banned in all of them then honestly I wouldn't care, because the playing field would be level at least. Either the Casinos would continue to operate near where they are now or business would drop, but it would be an across-the-board thing. Either way, if this goes into effect it will be probably the best example of what happens to competing businesses when some have smoking banned and the others don't.

However, I would rather us not be an example that others can compare to if it ends up closing us down...

You can expect Bob Dole to contact his elected representatives and ask that they introduce legislation that will ensure you can't legally offend Bob Dole again.

Go down to the nursing home and check out the people. Then come back here and tell me that's what you want.

We survived cocaine being an ingredient in Coca-Cola, too. We should probably go back to that as well, huh?

it's called detergent and shampoo...

you know something I don't like when I'm in a restaurant... some threehundry guy eating so fast I can hear him snorting through his nose to catch breaths during bites...but that's MY problem...not his.

we continue to segregate ourselves....three out of ten people in the US are overweight...you are kidding yourselves if you don't think they are next... the strain it's going to have on our health system is going to make cigarettes look like a walk in the park.

you see smokers in their eighties...

obese people never even sniff that.

Go to a casino...man what an eyeopener.

I was in Iowa for a meeting and it was at a Casino up NE of Des Moines. The place by noon was filled with these old people, a lot with walkers and more than you could believe carring the Oxygen bottle and still smoking.

And people say Govt needs to pay for health care?

Sad damn deal when they haul old folks out of a home on busses so they can sit and play slots all day.

If we can eliminate secondhand smoke, he'll be immune from all the ailments from which people suffer now.

I don't really care about the smoking ban, since I've been living with it for years out here in Cal.

I just thought that point about non-smokers now being able to go out and have a drink was a stupid one.

Skip I knew you went down to the old folks home to get ass. I just knew it. LMAO

Seriously, I'm extremely healthy and I'm not all that young. Hell, I got carded three weeks ago and the guy almost didn't let me in the club because he said no way I was as old as my ID said I was. My Grandparents are in their late 80's and are both relatively healthy and independent and my G-Grandparents lived into their mid and late 90's and were all functional and on their own until the end. No reason why a human being with good habits, genetics and medical treatment can't live a healthy life until 100.

Very few smokers in their 80's in fact, I know two guys who died from smoking before turning 70.

My mother made it to 89 but the last few years weren't really living. You go ahead to 100, I'll pass.

Actually it's called Germ theory which has spawned all sorts of medical advancements.