[Vision2020] Washinton's smoking ban -- a personal experience

[g. crabtree]

Blanket bans on almost everything are odious. If an establishment decides to 
go nonsmoking, fine. However, forcing your preferences on everyone else is 
tyranny. If you don't like smoke, work or recreate someplace else. It really 
isn't necessary regulate every single aspect of peoples lives.

Former smoker,
G. Crabtree
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "AreaMan (DanC)" <areaman at moscow.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 3:49 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] Washinton's smoking ban -- a personal experience


> Last night, for the first time in many moons, my wife and I went out
> with another couple to celebrate their anniversary (without kids, for a
> change).  It was a nice evening, with dinner at Sangria.  Seemed like
> everyplace was busy (probably due to winter graduations), but we managed
> to get a table relatively fast.
>
> After dinner, we thought about catching some live music somewhere in
> town.  Nobody really wanted to sit in a smoky bar, though.  Then someone
> had the brilliant idea (okay, I'll take the credit since I'm the one
> writing about it) that we should head on over to Pullman and see what we
> could find, since smoking is now banned in the bars.
>
> We headed over to Rico's, my first time there.  You could still smell a
> little bit of smoke in the walls, but that is understandable.  The
> kicker is that there was no smoke in the air!  We had a few drinks, shot
> a little pool, and waited for the music that never happened -- musta
> been a dead week/finals week thing.
>
> Anyhoo, before this evening the libertarian in me would not have wanted
> to do anything to legislate anyone's choice to suck on the coffin nails.
> But afterwards, I have to come down on the same side as Mark Solomon.
> I'd rather spend my beer money in Moscow and be able to walk home, but
> the way the laws sit now I will more than likely make arrangements for a
> driver to and from Pullman where I can enjoy some good brew and shoot
> some pool without coming out smelling like an ashtray.  I bet the bar
> employees enjoy their jobs a little more.  I know I would have back in
> my days as a bouncer at the North 4-D had smoking been banned.
>
> Maybe this is something we can do locally?  Maybe this is a plank in my
> 07 platform?  hmmmm . . .
>
> Wheels are turnin'
>
> DC
>
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