[Mpls] smoking ban

[Michael Atherton]

Rick Norby wrote:
 
> I am a man of peace so terrorism is out! The issue is active in the 
> City Council so that is where my energy will be. I liked the idea of 
> sunsetting a smoking ban in a year or two to see how it works.

Ack! This is driving me carzy(er)!  You like the idea of a
two year test ban because that's your position, but it totally
ignores the positions and rights of others. Consider this,
why don't we have two year trail ban of abortions?  Have
any problems with that?  And, please please don't claim that
abortions don't cause harm to anyone else.

I eat at Manny's. I don't smoke and I don't like secondhand smoke.  
I've never had a problem.  I won't eat at Perkins any more
because the places reek of tobacco.

I wish that someone would address my example of the café in
Amsterdam.  Is there a reason that there shouldn't be SOME
public options for smokers to smoke in Minneapolis, just as 
there are options for non-smokers not to have to breath 
secondhand smoke?  Then it's just a matter of personal choice.
If your smoking friends won't go with you to a non-smoking
bar or your favorite band won't play in one then maybe 
it's time to branch out a little.  Come to think of it
(if I was single), I'd only want to go to non-smoking bars
anyway because it'd be more likely to meet people who don't 
smoke.

Michael Atherton
Prospect Park