The Emporia Gazette

Smoking ban heads to Governor for approval

"This is a great thing especially for those who suffer from breathing problems we have to avoid so manhy restraurants even when there is a non smoking section because the smoke travels and irritates my daughter's asthma. Yea! My family and I can be normal and go out again."

Do you also avoid restaurants that serve alcohol?

Please define normal. What may be normal for you might not be for others. =0.

Seriously if you wanted to pull the children into play why not make establishments that allowed smoking have an age requirement (SUCH AS THE SMOKING AGE REQUIREMENT AND RESTAURANTS THAT ALLOW ALCOHOL REQUIRE AGE 21 TO PROCEED.)

February 26, 2010 at 12:37 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Smoking ban heads to Governor for approval

Offshore oil drilling... isn't there a law that states the us can't drill so many miles off lands but since its in international waters china has a oil platform drilling oil in the atlantic.

Global warming... WE GOTTA STOP DEM CO2 EMISSIONS! Whilest china and india are pumping far greater amounts into the air.

FAIL.

February 26, 2010 at 12:31 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Smoking ban heads to Governor for approval

Clean and Healthy food emporia should be created.

To believe that we should have the right to eat healthy and not risk getting fat and hurting others.

February 26, 2010 at 12:28 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Smoking ban heads to Governor for approval

We have laws against drunk driving, do you think drunk drivers should just be "left alone".
We have laws against murder, do you think murderers should just be "left alone"?

We don't have laws yet about french fries causing heart attacks and how pop should be outlawed yet but it's coming.

Why should we even bother making a law if it can be prevented by simply avoiding it. You don't like gang bangers? Don't go near that side of town. Are you allergic to peanut butter? Don't buy peanut butter. You can't avoid someone murdering you and you can't avoid someone driving drunk.

You can avoid smoking by banning it in public places but why does privately owned businesses have to suffer? It's your choice in the first place to go into that restaurant. Smoking kills? Oh really is that anything new and you didn't know that already after countless commercials drilling it into your head? How about obesity and heart attacks... someone might get too fat and land on my face and smother me to death. BETTER OUTLAW THAT TOO!

February 26, 2010 at 12:27 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Smoking ban heads to Governor for approval

"Sometimes, people like to live their lives in a way that is dangerous or harmful to others."

Driving a car is harmful to others drunk or not drunk.

An Obese bus driver that may have a heart attack at any moment may kill all the others on the bus in a crash.

Sigh.

February 26, 2010 at 12:14 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Smoking ban heads to Governor for approval

Smoking only needed to be outlawed from public places not privately owned restaurants and bars. =\.

February 26, 2010 at 12:03 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Smoking ban heads to Governor for approval

yea majority gets their way because they aren't smart enough to stay away from businesses that allowed smoking in the first place. =\ Responsibility for your actions failed (Entering the busienss that allowed smoking in the first place even though they proceeded to sit in the nonsmoking section KNOWING that the smoke may or may not still be in the air of the business because the business allowed smoking) and thus people don't like the smoke so they outlaw it.

February 26, 2010 at 12:01 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Smoke free or not

Responsibility for your actions. (You exposed yourself to that environment in the first place)

February 10, 2010 at 3:39 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Political shift

Also we elected congressmen for a reason, to read bills and vote for the way the public wants the vote to go.

Emphasis on READING BILLS EVEN IF 10000+ PAGES LONG.

SERIOUSLY speed readers for a bill that is spending 1trillion dollars? hahahahhahahaha that should not be speed read. wow.

February 10, 2010 at 3:37 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Political shift

Get rid of nancy pelosi!
Im tired of giving people money to sit on their bum.
Im tired of Democrats still blaming bush.
Im tired of Stimulus (tired of throwing money at problems and expecting it to get solved)
Im tired of knowing my taxes are going to go up and knowing that by the time I retire I may be 75 or 80 years of age.
Im tired of global warming.(Its bs and how can 100 years of measurements mean anything in the grand scheme of things)
Im tired of people who want to get rid of waterboarding and guantanamo bay ( Seriously the terrorists dont torture... they just kill by sawing off heads with dull knife (Yeah remember those videos years ago) )
Death penalty should always be available for idiots who act up in prision.
Im tired of the 2 party political monopoly system.
Im tired of Teresa walters telling me I cant have smoking in my privately owned business.
Seriously nonsmoking section or not you walked into that business in the first place (RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS)
Im pro-choice to a point.
Im tired of black people complaining about racism (SERIOUSLY A BLACK PRESIDENT)
Pro-legalization of Marijuana. (gateway arguement is retarded seriously, if they are going to try a harder drug then they are going to try it whether you like it or not)
Seriously my mom dad uncle and many friends have tried this drug and never tried the hard stuff.

February 10, 2010 at 3:35 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )