Smoking Bans & Bars on the Peoria.com Forums - Page 3

At the parade, as long as he was more than 15 feet from a door or window, he wasn't breaking the law.

And furthermore I say tax the hell out of smokes and take it off the gas. I dont need smokes to live. I do need gas to live though.

lol. Interesting approach.

jnutz on behalf of the smokers at the st patty's day iam sorry we had a little smoking section at the becker bld. i steped back to join them. I try to respect others its my bad habbit not yours. But big luke is right the people who walk by a beer garden and get miffed because they think they smell smoke is getting old good god we allready gave you the bar. we came outside put down your freaking tape measure and leave us alone.

a cigarette is a 1/4 inch and burns for 7 minutes an exhaust pipe is 2 inches and burns for hours if you let it. new law non smokers who want to complain about people smoking outside must now wear a space suit. there debate over.

How about you wear the space suit.. or better yet a helmet.. and just funnel that bad air inside?

The comments are getting so ridiculous on here. I want to choke some of you..(like my smoke joke?..it is a joke). Pregnancy hormones are in overdrive. Be warned.

why should i wear the space suit i allready gave the non smokers the bar i go outside and they still whine. throw me a freaking bone here.

I've never smoked in my life, and don't particularly care to be around second-hand smoke. Yet somehow I was easily able to avoid second-hand smoke before the ban. Do you know how I did it? This may shock some of you. I went to non-smoking establishments. Yes! There were lots of them, too! No one ever held a gun to my head and forced me to breathe in second-hand smoke, nor did they force me to go to a bar or restaurant that allowed smoking.

So, really, the law the state *should* have passed was one that made it a crime to force people to go to restaurants/bars that allowed smoking. Anyone caught forcing some poor non-smoker against his/her will to go to a smoking establishment should be arrested. If a non-smoker puts himself in harm's way of his own volition, however, then he only has himself to blame.

Constant exposure to 2nd-hand smoke is bad, but there is no solid science backing it up in smaller doses. That doesn't really say much, considering ANYthing can be bad if you go overboard. Moderation, small doses, you're usually okay.

I agree with Chef Kevin. It's a ridiculous law and should be up to the business owner. If you choose to eat / drink at a smoking establishment, then you're putting yourself at risk.

The space suit comment just seemed a bit extreme. I'm not a smoker, but have several people I enjoy hanging out with that do smoke. It's my choice where I sit and whether or not I want to be around them. But, I will say, I appreciate the courtesy that some take in removing themselves from a group to have a smoke or making the effort to turn away when exhaling. As a non-smoker, I appreciate that. I'm adult enough to know what smoke and secondhand smoke does to my lungs and yours, just as lack of exercise, a bad diet and stress does to our bodies. It's a choice..

True but respect for your fellow man. step back it isnt that hard.

So, what you are basically saying is that it is OK to harm someone so long as they consent to it?

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Well said indeed! BTW, I am a non smoker also. Tried it once, we didn't get along. I don't see the point in it really.

By the way, it isn't just Indoor smoking that the law prohibits, it is always smoking by door ways, which is something I have an issue with. There have been several instances where I've walked out of a building, designated No smoking by the owners just to walk into someone smoking in the path of egress, I guess I should of been aware of the smoking and jumped out a window instead.

I think that was you i met at the chili party. when i lit up i moved down the driveway away from everyone. if more smokers where like me you probably wouldn't have a problem, but when iam sitting in a beer garden outside siting at a table by the fence and some whiner walks by crying it does wear a little thin.