Should smoking be banned in bars?

[jdgregory84]

TBH, if it was up to the owner, they really would have no choice. If they decided to not have smoking in their establishment that leaves them vulnerable to a huge loss of business. No owner is going to cut his/hers own throat.

True. I smoke when I go out and drink and I'd be perfectly cool with a patio area outside. That's how a lot of bars on 6th street here in Austin are since you can't smoke in bars...minus the ones that don't care.

[Txstang1]

That's not what the law says now.

I am really just playing devils advocate. I really don't give a shit either way. Just don't come in my home and smoke.

I hear ya

The argument is not about the smokers right to smoke in restaurant/bar it is about the owners right to choose, not to be told by the government either way.

don't go preaching that too much, the anti-smokers dont wanna hear all that. Just about their supposed right to say "hey, we don't want to go in there because of the smoke. It my right to go in any restraurant I want and demand you quit smoking so wencan go in "

Gimme a break

[564826]

The moral police is out in full force.
I don't smoke and I don't think that a law should be passed to ban smoking from a private establishment.

[mstng86]

No. Because smoking is cool.

Seriously though, it should be up to the bar owner. Like stated before, if a bartender is bitching.....sounds like they didn't think their employment decision through very well. If non-smoking customers are bitching, again, what did you expect? You're in a bar.

TBH, if it was up to the owner, they really would have no choice. If they decided to not have smoking in their establishment that leaves them vulnerable to a huge loss of business. No owner is going to cut his/hers own throat.

[The King]

Actually, it's not. In Dallas and Ft Worth, I don't have options where I can go and bother people with carcinogens.

Non smokers have options. Smokers don't have options. It's not as circular as you think, because it's completely one sided.

Boo-Hoo-Hoo

[GrayStangGT]

It seems to me that the government has more of a right to tell people not to smoke on a street paid for by the tax payers that elected them then they do to tell someone if they can smoke in a privately owned establishment.

[jdgregory84]

No. Because smoking is cool.

Seriously though, it should be up to the bar owner. Like stated before, if a bartender is bitching.....sounds like they didn't think their employment decision through very well. If non-smoking customers are bitching, again, what did you expect? You're in a bar.

[mstng86]

Actually, it's not. In Dallas and Ft Worth, I don't have options where I can go and bother people with carcinogens.

You have the option to smoke outside.

[bcoop]

The argument is not about the smokers right to smoke in restaurant/bar it is about the owners right to choose, not to be told by the government either way.

This is the big issue at heart, but plenty in the other thread simply don't understand that.


I have to say, poll results thus far have surprised me.

[Juiced4v]

Nope...I smoke when I drink!

[Txstang1]

That's not what the law says now.

Which is just another symptom of what's wrong with this county.

[GrayStangGT]

You have plenty of options to go to and not bother people with carcinogens.



THIS IS A ROUND AND ROUND ARGUMENT. No one wons.

The argument is not about the smokers right to smoke in restaurant/bar it is about the owners right to choose, not to be told by the government either way.

[bcoop]

You have plenty of options to go to and not bother people with carcinogens.



THIS IS A ROUND AND ROUND ARGUMENT. No one wons.

Actually, it's not. In Dallas and Ft Worth, I don't have options where I can go and bother people with carcinogens.


Non smokers have options. Smokers don't have options. It's not as circular as you think, because it's completely one sided.

[mstng86]

no ,'it's the over way around.

That's not what the law says now.

I am really just playing devils advocate. I really don't give a shit either way. Just don't come in my home and smoke.

[Txstang1]

Your choice is to smoke outside, not smoke at all, or don't go to a bar or restraurant.

no ,'it's the over way around.