I wish all bars were smoke free
I wish all bars were smoke free
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#0I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 11:34am
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The Associated Press Sep 21, 2004
TRENTON, N.J. Which is more harmful to your health a smoky bar or a city street filled with diesel truck fumes? Well, you might want to skip your next happy hour. Smoky bars and casinos have up to 50 times more cancer-causing particles in the air than highways and city streets clogged with diesel trucks at rush hour, according to a study that also shows indoor air pollution virtually disappears once smoking is banned. Conducted by the researcher who first showed secondhand smoke causes thousands of U.S. lung cancer deaths each year, the study found casino and bar workers are exposed to particulate pollution at far greater levels than the government allows outdoors.
laactress
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/7/04
#1re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 1:19pmIn California they are ALL smoke free! One day it will be smoke fee everywhere!
#2re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 1:21pmThe newest study also says that "social smoking" is now much more harmful than previously thought. I used to be a social smoker when I drank, but fortunately stopped long ago.
#3re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 1:22pm
Non-smoker: "You know, second hand smoke is more harmful to the people around you than it is to yourself."
Smoker: "Well, I guess I made the right choice then."
#4re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 1:22pmLOL!!
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#5re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 2:21pm
"In California they are ALL smoke free! One day it will be smoke fee everywhere!"
Ah, yes. That's the only thing I miss about living in California.
The newest buffet at the Mirage in Las Vegas which is called "Cravings" is 100% smoke free. This is a very good thing becasue at many of the other restaurants in Vegas you have to wait much longer for non-smoking which is bull****.
Another thing that pisses me off is how much money the Federal goverment spends a year subsidizing tobacco famers. Basically, tobacco is a pain in the ass to grow. If you don't get the perfect amount of rain throughout the growing season, then your crop is screwed. But, not to worry the government will pay you. Also many tobacco farmers won't/can't grow anything else because the only thing they could make more money per acre growing is pot.
#6re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 2:27pm
Here in my happy neck of the woods every bar ad restaurant is smoke free as are most of the cities and towns around us.
*** EDIT*** man this no heat is making typing hard! 
#7re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 2:29pmI live in SC and bars without smoking is like Matt_G without his witting comments. Doesn't happen. I wish it did though because asthma is a Bitch and I can't go into any place around here without an inhaler on the ready.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#9re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 2:36pm
Your favorite state Rodney Massachusetts
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#10re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 2:46pm
lol
So that explains why Ted Kennedy isn't dead yet.
judy_in_disguise
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/31/04
#11re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 2:54pm
The city I live in (Kingston) went smoke free a few years ago. It's awesome being a vocalist here becuase you don't have to worry about all that crap getting into your lungs.
The Greater Toronto Area just went smoke free a few months ago, Toronto included. It's wonderful.....for us non-smokers, anyway.
#12re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:04pmNow everyone can focus more heavily on destroying their bodies with liquor without having to worry about getting cut off at the pass by wandering cigarette smoke.
judy_in_disguise
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/31/04
#13re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:06pm
exactly!
let the destruction begin!
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#14re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:10pm
The ONLY thing I like about it (and this from a reformed smoker...well...reformed for just over two months...we'll see how long it lasts), is that my clothes don't get all stinky!
Otherwise, NYC bars without the smoke is like a cocaine high without the gnashing of teeth.
It's JUST NOT THE SAME!!!
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#15re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:12pmAmen, Robbie.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#16re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:15pmWhen the Vegas casinos go smoke-free, it will be the end of the world as we know it.
#17re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:15pmExcept now that people can only smoke outside, and the sidewalks here are so crowded, you're still breathing in your neighbor's smoke all the time.
#18re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:17pm
robbiej congrats! good luck it is a tough habit to break.
As for me I never smoked. I saw what it did to my parents.
judy when did that law go in to effect? We vacationed in Ontario this summer (August) I don't recall being asked for a preference in seating at resturants.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#19re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:20pm
As far as stinky clothes, whenever I go to my friends house to pay poker, when I get home I take off EVERYTHING and seal it in a plastic bag until laundry day.
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#20re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:22pmhappily all bars here in LA are smoke free. You will find that the ones with outside areas for the smokers don't do good buisness.
judy_in_disguise
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/31/04
#21re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:24pm
Mom, what part of Ontario were you in? It's only the GTA, Kingston and Ottawa that are currently smoke free I believe.
Toronto just went in the past few months, perhaps in August, I can't quite remember. If you weren't asked for a preference in seating- does that mean it was all smoke free where you were? Because they made laws YEARS ago stating that smoking areas had to be sectionalized, and a few years ago they even had to be in a sepearte room.
#22re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:29pm
We were in Toronto (what a wonderful zoo!) and Niagra Falls. It must have been all smoke free, because in N.F. we were seated near the bar and smoke bothers the heck out of me. Thanks for the info!
#23re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:31pm
Red Robin around here has gone smoke free, they might as well advertise they have leprosy while they're at it. The place is a morgue.
I don't even smoke but I tend to sit in smoking sections because they have less kids. It's a risk I'm willing to take to have a peaceful meal, free of screaming children.
Updated On: 10/26/04 at 03:31 PM
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#24re: I wish all bars were smoke free
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:35pm
I forsee a new label:
'Surgeon General warns, children are hazardous to your health.'
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