re: New Orleans City Council Passes Smoking Ban

What's the big deal? The smokers can go outside on the patio/balcony and smoke.

Or the non-smokers can go outside and not smoke. What's the big deal?

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you're totally right, this crosses the final moral Rubicon and will lead to the collapse of the republic because smokers have to walk 20 feet to light up

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the rubicon was already crossed

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You don't have the constitutional right to serve liquor in a place that allows smoking

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i believe that you do

or should

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440 thousand according to whose statistics? Do you know anything about how those numbers are arrived at? Neither does the CDC? It has been hovering around that number for the past ten years. I thought smoking rates have gone down. So how come lung cancer rates have gone up at the same time?

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Dunno anything about the numbers (I know your reply was to the thread and not me). I would guess one reason, in addition to old data, is lung cancer is a lagging indicator. Think how long it takes smokers to develop cancer, and secondhand smoke takes even longer to kill people. So a drop in smoking won't yield a drop in lung cancer for decades.

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Seven City Councillors at City Hall decided it. Not a very large number. Time for a tax revolt. Not just for smokers.

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Outside of bitching and downvoting on message boards, not a single one of you will do a damn thing about this, and you all know it. Why? Because you all are incredibly dishonest about this issue which is, though you won't admit it, meaningless to you. There are regulations concerning what content food served can have, to whom you can serve what kinds of beverages, and even how many people are allowed in your restaurant/bar at a time. This smoking ban means no more or less to you than do the three items above, and your actions going forward will do nothing less than prove me 100% right, and I defy you all to prove me the least bit wrong.

Those seven city councillors take their orders from the World Bank, like everybody else. So loosen up and bow down to your masters!

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In a sense you are right. Of all the things jacked up in the City of New Orleans, the smoking ban is meaningless compared to rampant crime, horrible schools, and lack of any economic future. Sadly, based on the demographics of the city as reflected by its representatives who will do all in their power to to steal and enrich their friends, little to nothing can be done except to move away like most of the functional have done in the past half century.

Here is a critique of Chantix from 2012. One of British Columbia's drugs of choice to stop smoking:

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