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    <author><![CDATA[exsmoker]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I don't understand people's thinking that a smoker has more rights than a non-smoker. Your right to smoke ends at my right to breathe and smell clean.
        
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      <![CDATA[Simple solution is to provide patio's where smoking is allowed. I just moved from Houston where a smoking is in place except for patios (covered or not).
        
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      <![CDATA[I am a cigar smoker and will only smoke in cigar bars. I am all for bars letting the customers decide.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Cousin Pat from Georgia]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I remember all the doom and gloom predictions for Athens and Atlanta area bars and restaurants when the smoking ban came through in Georiga. I remember all the doom and gloom predictions back when Louisiana moved to no smoking in restaurant establishments.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Andouille Queen]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[In 2011 you have the right to just about anything inside the four walls of your own home. Once you go outside we all have the responsibility to NOT harm others.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[tah]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Smoking is not a "human right". It is a privilege, and a long as it's legal, people have the right.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Kraut]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I was at least one of the said "thin trickle of kickball players" and I go there regularly, but I would not have gone that day if not for the smoking ban experiment.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[allcladrad]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Leave it to the owners and have them post a sign at the door so the customers will have the choice. Time will then be the judge.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Tar Baby]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Oh shut up! <br>
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The point of the initiative in LA is that the law currently states that smoking is prohibited in all workplaces for the health of the employees EXCEPT bars, casinos, and restaurants.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[John Davidson]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[We have a statewide ban in place and it decimated most bars until we opted to place smoking ban fine jars out on the counters!<br>
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Now we are smoking and the health dept finally gave up trying to enforce the unenforcible!<br>
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Prohibition didnt work before and it isnt going to work now.<br>
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If you want smokefree then do it just understand most bars customer base is smokers! A bar isnt a health club, its a bar where grown ups partake of freedom and enjoyment with other like minded adults.<br>
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I say it with passion non-smoking bars are a bankruptcy waiting to happen and in this economy why cut your own throat!<br>
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stupidty factor is way up there for these folks!
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:50:25 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[John Davidson]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Why not try an ALCOHOL FREE NITE, along with your smoke-free nite..........the point is why would you want to toss out your customer base at all...........like cutting your own throat! Glad your not in charge of my bar!
        
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          <a href="http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/Profile?oid=1846589">John Davidson</a>]]>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:44:15 -0500</pubDate>
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