2006-12-10 13:19:39 · 5 answers · asked by august m 2 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Cleveland
I feel the ban went way too far. It took away the rights of all the business owners in Ohio. If I own a house, pay my bills and taxes for my house, I, the homeowner, gets to decide if people smoke in My house or not. But I guess the business owners who pay their bills and taxes don't get to decide if people can smoke in their business or not. Here's a simple solution: you force a business to put a sign on their door informing the public whether or not the place is smoking or non-smoking. Then, you let the public decide whether they want to spend their money there or not. And the employees who don't want to be exposed to secondhand smoke can decide if they want to work there or not. That way, the business owners and the public both keep their rights. Everybody wins.
2006-12-13 21:58:50 · answer #1 · answered by MRewak 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I agree with the others here - a business owner should have every right to decide what LEGAL activities they would like to permit in their establishment. To me, complaining about smoke in a bar is like complaining about obnoxious drunk people in a bar.
What gets me too is that if you read the fine print there are a lot of restrictions on smoking areas now too. My favorite bar, in order to comply with the law, made their back patio a smoking area. They put a heater out there (how nice that this started in winter, eh?) and put up tarps, kinda like a tent, to keep the heat in that area. Nice, right? Nope. Illegal, because the law specifies that an outdoor patio for smoking can have no more than TWO walls if it has a roof. Now how many things with a roof have only TWO walls?? That means that at my college, you can no longer smoke under awnings outside buildings because they have three walls (the buildings have two sets of doors so no, the smoke isn't filtering in to where people are) - if it's pouring down rain, and you get one break in the middle of your three hour class, you get to go smoke in the rain! Yay!!!
Yet they have to provide for an indoor smoking room in nursing homes, of all places. Why?? The whole thing makes no sense.
2006-12-14 10:03:27 · answer #2 · answered by p0is0n0us_butterfly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Judge has ruled until they can figure out the rules it is up to the owner. I know Delaney's Chases Inn in Mentor still allows it, but on the other hand Spats in Concord will not . As a smoker I think they way they got away with this is the wording on the ballot was tricky
Not only that now they want to raise the taxes on cigarettes.
So time will tell
2006-12-11 16:26:50 · answer #3 · answered by Kit 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I found the smoking ban a little harsh. I can understand no smoking in restaurants and the work place. What I find stupid is the no smoking in the local bars. this will put a lot of small bar owners out of business and the fact that one can drink and then drive home but the cigarette smoke is harmful is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. I know drinking and driving is illegal but lets face it a lot of people still do it.
2006-12-10 23:33:14 · answer #4 · answered by ohiomontana 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Personally I am offended that they can make cigarettes legal and then limit you to smoking them in your own home. If they are legal let people smoke them.
I do understand not in hospitals or government buildings. But when it comes to restaurants and bars... let the management decide and post it accordingly. Smoking or Non but no sharing the space as smoke gets everywhere no matter how good you filter.
If it is so bad for us, ban cigarettes but don't make these limits.
I say it is one Big Brother step towards taking our rights and I am not even a smoker.
2006-12-12 05:41:05 · answer #5 · answered by proudAmerican 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋