@BlogKCKMBC-TV 9 reports that Jackson County Judge John O’Malley has denied a motion seeking to overturn the voter-approved smoking ban, and it will start tomorrow. The lawsuit will continue, but the ban will go into effect for now.
Now, let’s all pack the Twin City Tavern and let Kim know that there is a demand for smoke-free drinking.
An alternative to smoking bans
There has never been a single study showing that exposure to the low levels
of smoke found in bars and restaurants with decent modern ventilation and
filtration systems kills or harms anyone.
As to the annoyance of smoking, a compromise between smokers and non-smokers
can be reached, through setting a quality standard and the use of modern
ventilation technology.
Air ventilation can easily create a comfortable environment that removes not
just passive smoke, but also and especially the potentially serious
contaminants that are independent from smoking.
Thomas Laprade
Thunder Bay, Ont.
Ph. 807 3457258
>Now, let’s all pack the Twin City Tavern
>and let Kim know that there is a demand
>for smoke-free drinking.
Don’t kid yourself. If there was such a demand, there would have been more nonsmoking bars without any silly little law.
Instead, nonsmoking bars went under even when they were few and far between.
Smoking is very annoying to other people. If you need to smoke, stay at home! I look forward to the day when it’s banned in public in all cities.. I hate to sound mean, but get use to it..
good point dave. i completely forgot that things that annoy people should be made into public law and strip the rights of the business owner to decide who and how they should run their business. i mean capitolism is cool and all, but sometimes it just needs a little fixin!
you know dave, let’s not stop there. i’m uncomfortable hanging around the fat, old and mentally handicapped.
there i am trying to eat my meal and they just sit there and stare! it’s annoying as hell and i’m thinking this city needs to start doing something about it! fat,old, retard ban in 2010? anyone w/ me?
People blowing their nose in a restaurant grosses me out. If anything should be banned, it’s that.
Why are you screening and deleting responses that you do not agree with on this sight????
BS is what it is!
If you can’t make a living selling alcohol, regardless of whether or not smoking is allowed, you don’t deserve to be in business.
Seriously. Selling alcohol in a boring city like KC should be easier than opening a candy store next to an elementary school.
If you think KC is too boring for you, then leave. And remember, most places seem great when you’re just visiting; you don’t have to work tommorow, you’re going to the best restaurants, you brought lots of money with you, etc. Living anywhere is a far cry from visiting.
I’m glad KC finally can do what other cities around it were doing years ago. Since most of the people in this city are degenerate unemployed drunks and losers who are on Medicare, we’re paying for their smoking related illnesses. We’re paying for the asthma they cause in their children. We’re paying for fire protection because they get high and drunk, pass out, and torch their house.
If smokers just paid their share, the true cost of medical care, it would be a different story. The true cost of cigarettes, if smokers were to pay the full cost, would need a price of $15 to $20 per pack in taxes.
It’s the smoker blame game… The antismoking fanatics are hypocritical. It’s ironic that cigarette prices went from $1/pack to $4/pack and yet chewing tobacco is still $1/can…
Derek-
I chewed for the last decade. It was, NEVER, $1 a can. Nice try though. But you are wrong. Again.
The smoking ban is a joke without enforcement. It is illegal to shoot off any fireworks in KCMO (including snappers), but who is going to enforce it. There was enough smoke in the Uptown Theatre last night to get a contact buzz. how can you enforce a no smoking ordinance when the employees and band smoke out on the open. Where are the smoking police? Who are the smoking police? So far it is up to each business owner to enforce the the smoking ban.
By the way there was a half an hour rain day at the Widespread Panic Concert inside the Uptown. There was a roof leak near the drummer and it was raining down pretty good.