KC residents - How are you voting on the smoking ban in April?

[Bowser]

Let's get a definitive look on how the Planet feels about this. Poll on the way.

[RNR]

Ok I get it! if I opened a cigar bar that a nonsmoker would never enter I do not have the right to because the nonsmoker is offended! I was really out of line thinking I have the right to open a bussiness that allows people to enter if they only if they choose! is way too offensive

[Bowser]

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[markk]

i would vote no. i dont think the government should tell a private business owner how to run his business. if people dont want to smell smoke at my bar they should go to a different bar. but thats not enough for some people, they want to outlaw anything they think is unpleasant anywhere.

[NUMBER7]

I voted yes. I have buried my father, aunt and uncle due to emphysema and lung cancer. I am in medicine and have personally seen the destruction caused by smoking and second hand smoke. Below is just 1 statistic you need to know.

The states with death rates in the fourth interval (64.6 to 77.2 per 100,000) include Arkansas, Delaware, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
*Rates are per 100,000 and are age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population.
^†Source: U.S. Cancer Statistics Working Group. United States Cancer Statistics: 2004 Incidence and Mortality. Atlanta (GA): Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and National Cancer Institute; 2007.

http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/lung/stati...risk_state.htm

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by markk

i would vote no. i dont think the government should tell a private business owner how to run his business. if people dont want to smell smoke at my bar they should go to a different bar. but thats not enough for some people, they want to outlaw anything they think is unpleasant anywhere.

With that attitude you will NOT be invited to join the American Nazi Part--excuse me, I mean the American Cancer Society.