Let ‘Em Smoke…Actually Don’t.

House committee agrees to ban smoking in bars and casinos

Even though I haven’t smoked for many years, I used to be on the smokers’ side in these debates. I used to think, “Well, we are in a bar. We expect it to be smoky right?” Yea, those were the days.

I finally had a change of heart when I realized the smokers really don’t give a damn about non-smokers. They say they do but there have been tons of times when my smoking fellow bar patron would let their smoke drift into my face hour after hour, night after night. Some folks may be nice enough to go outside but many more don’t. It’s not so much my health I’m concerned about as my comfort. And hey, there are a thousand different reasons one can be uncomfortable in a bar right? But here’s one that has legislation behind it! And since the smokers never seemed to care about me when I was undecided, why not throw my support to the other side? They really seem to want it and the smokers could care less.

And I have to tell ya, nothing pleased me more than seeing groups of smokers huddled outside San Diego bars in the cold and rain sucking their little cancer sticks. Pathetic! Not only were they killing themselves but they were ostracized too! Poor saps! Suck down the carcinogens suckers! Be sure to bring your umbrella! And another $5 in case you run out of smokes!

Of course I also happened to be up in Ohio recently when their smoking ban was going into effect. It was awesome hearing them threaten to boycott bars as a reaction to the laws. Oh, lawd! What will we ever do without that portion of that portion of clientele! You get ’em smokers! Fight for your rights as smokers! Stay home and smoke! That will show ’em.