No Smoking in Public Places in Ohio (Cincinnati, Florida: motels, homes)

[paintballer1708]

How do you feel about this law. Most places i have been to around here in Cincinnati have signs up talking about the smoking law. How do you feel about it? It is actually nice walking into a place not smelling smoke when you get near the smoking section.

[rrtechno]

It would be nice if all the places would follow the law instead of ignoring it. I really would like to go to some of the places we have been avoiding because of the smoke. Here in northern Ohio, some of the places are saying they will lose business because the smokers will go to Michigan. Did they ever give any thought to the fact that the non-smokers from Michigan might come to Ohio. If all the places were following the law, nobody could claim they are at a disadvantage because they can't allow smoking. The business owners who are complaining seem to be worried more about their livelihood than our lives.

[paintballer1708]

Great way of looking at it. I never thought about the non smokers leaving Michigan and coming to Ohio. They say the same thing with Pennsylvania, but Pennsylvania will also be taking the non smoking act too. I think in the long run this will help businesses out. The truth is the large percentage of the population does not smoke. I know many people will be happy to start going out to eat, and not smell smoke while their enjoying dinner with their family. I dont see how hard it is to go outside and smoke? Why do you insist that it be inside? I know in Florida this has taken affect. People just simply walk outside and smoke. If they can do it there, im sure many other states can do the same.

[htlong]

i dont like the govt telling anyone what they can and cant do.
i dont smoke and i sit in a no smoking section if smoke bothers me i just dont go.
i do think places should have smoking and non smoking areas.
now people have to worry about smoke police ,smoking is decreasing and in a few years the slowest rate of suicide will come to an end when they die.

[Cosmic]

This is pretty easy.

I have never smoked and have had to put up with that nasty habit for way too many years. Including in a lot of cramped spaces, bars, submarines and just about everywhere else. I even had a girlfriend for a little while that was a smoker, never again. About like snuggling with a smokestack.

Let me invent a habit (not smoking, say I get very gassy and get to break wind every 10 minutes and throw dust out of my pocket and then lite matches to see where the dust went) where I pollute your air at my choice, leave dirt and ashes around at my choice, throw potential fire starting lil bundles anywhere I choose, all at my choice. The rest of you, including smokers get zero to say about what I do.

In fact I will be able to do what ever I please, where I please, including having a long term effect on your health, all at my choice.

That is exactly what smokers are asking non-smokers to endure. If they want to continue it is their problem. Just no more in public places, you can't smoke in my house, you can't smoke in my car or anywhere around me. Other than that they are free to continue to kill themselves. I think they should have to pay far more for the pleasure of dying so slow. The playing field is still not fair in terms of them paying for all the health costs it causes.

I'm tried of staying in motels where the rooms stink. Or being on airplanes where it still stinks. None of it do I get a choice. Make it where they can't smoke in any building that the general public uses, including all businesses open to public, stores, shops, bars, etc. Seems a fair deal to me. Smokers and non-smokers get the same air and conditions. It is not about the owners, they ask all of us to come in. Give us all the same air. I don't want them spitting anywhere either. Swallow the stuff if they must.


If they got to pay fines and get hassled, their problem for once. Sneak under a bridge where no bums are sleeping and kill themselves just a bit more. My "Pity Tank" is dry.

[angellewis]

I am all up for it. Hey many people have to suffer dealing with the smoking.

Everytime we are in smoking resaurants we come home complaining smelling cigs in our nose that last days, clothes smelling like it and I don't want to die from Cancer either from it. My cousin died from lung cancer and she was a very heavy smoker. I begged my mom to quit for years and she finally did it and she has never felt better. I told my hubby when we were dating it was either me or cigarettes. So he finished the last pack and quit on my birthday and it has been 6 yrs since he has been smoking free.

I want every state to do it. Oh well if yall don't like it. It is nasty, it kills you. It is just my 2cents.

Wanna smoke, smoke in your own house. I agree with you cosmic.

You know what bothers me the most. Parents making their young children sit in smoking. That is down right fowl. My mother smoked since she was 13 and she is now 55 yrs old and finally quit. She never smoked around my sisters kids, never smoke in our homes but her own etc. You are putting yourself in a death bed. Take a look at Bill Varney who plays as Ernest, he died of lung cancer too. So put it this way you are asking for it. Once you get it don't whine and deal with it. It is nice to be able to eat dinner without smelling smoke.

gov is not telling us what to do, they are trying to help who deal with it.

[htlong]

govt is telling you what you can do, i dont smoke but i dont think govt should tell people where and when they can smoke , if it is such a problem dont frequent places that allow people to smoke, vote with your money.
everyone expects the govt to take care of them, katrina is a prime example.
smoking is nasty i agree but if a owner of a business wants to allow it ,its his business if enough people stop going to his business account of the smoking he will out law it. it shouldnt be done by the govt.
take your own action , this womb to tomb govt care is wrong

[hapaleeretired]

i dont smoke and i sit in a no smoking section if smoke bothers me i just dont go.
i do think places should have smoking and non smoking areas.
As George Carlin said "the non smoking section of the restaurant is like the non peeing section of the public pool".
Many restaurants who feared they would lose business were happy to find that it helped business. Smokers eat and leave to go get a fix instead of sitting around smoking and gabbing while tying up a table. Quicker turn over: More customers!

[angellewis]

Restaurants are loosing business from people smoking in there. Many non smokers will not return. Trust me I know.

Bob Evans had a smoking section, they said that ever since they banned the smoking, more people has come back. I can see bars, and places like that with smoking cause 90 percent of them smoke that hangs out. I would rather see less smokers come to the resaurant than none of the people come up.

There are many people that are in resperator and can not be near smoking, so if all the seats were taken but by the smoking section, then there is a problem.

[htlong]

angel,
thats great news i wish all restaurants were non smoking im not against a owner making his place a no smoking place that is his right, just as its the right of an owner to allow smoking.
i just dont think its the govt. job to tell people where they can smoke period.