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Originally Posted by Jon Oso
You've been to AZ. They banned smoking in bars/clubs here in 2007. You can smoke on patios but if it's inside... no go.
I believe the only legal exceptions are hookah lounges and a couple bars around here that are labeled by the city as "patio properties" and grandfathered in. Patio meaning they did not have solid walls to the property at the time they were built and coded.
In fact, to further the "we don't want to be near smoke" campaign, you're not even allowed to smoke within 20 feet of a main entrance to a business.
It's pretty retarded.
I can understand not wanting to smell smoke if you don't smoke - I smoke and I don't even want to smell it half the time... but to pass a law regarding it is taking it a bit far.
Only place I agree with it is places that primarily serve food... Most smokers I know don't even smoke when they're eating.
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We have to pass laws because people are assholes with no care for anyone/anything but themselves.
I'm an offender when I use to smoke. I was playing roulette the first time I was in Vegas and when drunk kept blowing my smoke in the dealer's face accidentally. He couldn't tell me not to smoke but boy was he pissed, rightfully so.
I watched a kid just litter yesterday, no reason. Told him he dropped something, magically it found its way in the trash can.
The thing is people don't want government interference but they won't take the social responsibility to do things the right way in the first place, so rules have to be implemented.
And yes on the hookah bars - we are in Tucson and they are still allowed. At the office we have to implement the 20 ft. rule too.