Anti-Smoking Groups Reject Latest Offer on Wisconsin Smoking Ban

The latest attempt at a compromise on a statewide smoking ban has been rejected. via WSAW

[Sheri]

Who the hell is in charge of state governments? What authority does SmokeFree and ACS have in state legislators? I thought the job of the ACS was to find a cure for cancer, not to accept and reject the laws of the land. Someone needs to step up to the plate and investigate these groups.

[Bill Hannegan]

Right on Senator Breske!:

Breske said taverns across northern Wisconsin should be given years to comply with any smoking ban because it would force many of them to close. Bar owners need time to decide whether to comply with the smoking ban, sell their businesses or remodel their property for other uses, he said.

A former bar owner and ex-president of the Tavern League of Wisconsin, Breske called warnings about the dangers of secondhand smoke "hogwash."

Breske said he started working in a bar when he was a child, and the air in that bar was "blue" from the smoke.

"I'm still alive," Breske said. "I'm 69."

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx...

[Al Smokehommond Jazzeri]

Bill Hannegan wrote:

Right on Senator Breske!:
Breske said taverns across northern Wisconsin should be given years to comply with any smoking ban because it would force many of them to close. Bar owners need time to decide whether to comply with the smoking ban, sell their businesses or remodel their property for other uses, he said.
A former bar owner and ex-president of the Tavern League of Wisconsin, Breske called warnings about the dangers of secondhand smoke "hogwash."
Breske said he started working in a bar when he was a child, and the air in that bar was "blue" from the smoke.
"I'm still alive," Breske said. "I'm 69."
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx...

Now there is some real science you can take to the bank.! "I'm still alive," Breske said. "I'm 69."

[Wadwizard]

The Wisconsin do-gooder-fascist-prohibitioni st legislators should mind their own damn business and let Bar and Tavern owners and the free market choose what's best for them and their customers.

[Bushra]

Smokers faces look like old catchers mits. Let them kill themselves.

[Free America]

Bill Hannegan wrote:

Right on Senator Breske!:
Breske said taverns across northern Wisconsin should be given years to comply with any smoking ban because it would force many of them to close. Bar owners need time to decide whether to comply with the smoking ban, sell their businesses or remodel their property for other uses, he said.
A former bar owner and ex-president of the Tavern League of Wisconsin, Breske called warnings about the dangers of secondhand smoke "hogwash."
Breske said he started working in a bar when he was a child, and the air in that bar was "blue" from the smoke.
"I'm still alive," Breske said. "I'm 69."
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx...

Bill did you get my message on bantheban

[Free America]

Sheri wrote:

Who the hell is in charge of state governments? What authority does SmokeFree and ACS have in state legislators? I thought the job of the ACS was to find a cure for cancer, not to accept and reject the laws of the land. Someone needs to step up to the plate and investigate these groups.

I got tied up in the senate committee, never made it to some of them wanted the Tavern League and the anti's to work something out. And as usually with them there is no compromise. For them it's all or nothing. I am fighting for nothing. I mean that in a positive way.

[just candid]

Smoking is not cool nor 'kool', it's just something dumdums are known to do.

[bdjunker]

BIGOTRY is definately NOT cool. BIGOTRY KILLS!

[Free America]

just candid wrote:

Smoking is not cool nor 'kool', it's just something dumdums are known to do.

I am being just candid, If brains were cotton you couldn't make a kotex for a piss ant.

[unreal]

I cannot believe that illinois is buying ash trays for out side bars due to all the cigs out side. "what a joke"
Get real people quit wasting peoples tax paying money and lift the stupid smoking ban on taverns.
If ya want to fight against something look at our ecomomy today it sure is not looking to good. Now with more revenue losses due to this stupid smoking ban its only going to get worse.
Wake up people!

[straight up]

Hey Unreal thats crazy maybe illinois will provide tvs and lazyboys outside too.
What the heck!
Its to bad these people that are all for this smoking ban will also pay in the long run.
Freedom does rule and so does choice.

[Bob]

Those groups really get around. After stomping on the freedom of one state, they jump to another one. They don't give a flying **** about the local concerns. They just keep moving on, like the "snake oil" salesmen in the old west. Keep those tax exempt dollars coming for lobbying and political action committes (PACS)

[Bob]

I have a feeling their "all or nothing" may be the downfall of of this whole thing. They're waking up too many sleeping giants. Had they left bars and casinos out of this whole thing, they may have quietly gotten away with it.

[Bob]

This "tavern league" is really doing a fantastic job. How can they be helped?

[Linda]

Bob wrote:

I have a feeling their "all or nothing" may be the downfall of of this whole thing. They're waking up too many sleeping giants. Had they left bars and casinos out of this whole thing, they may have quietly gotten away with it.

Wi should tell the anti smoking groups to butt out of the states affairs. Who rules who!

[Bob]

It seems as though each state they encounter are increasingly resisting their efforts. Hopefully, we are all making enough rukus to wake up the politicians.

[Free America]

Bob wrote:

This "tavern league" is really doing a fantastic job. How can they be helped?

It doesn't hurt that the Senator use to own a tavern.

[Bob]

I think he's highly qualified to make decisions that affect businesses.

[Linda]

sMOKING BANS ARE NOT THE END OF THE CONTROL
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/foreign/brunowat...