State Health Officials To Seek Wider Smoking Ban In Oklahoma

Anti-smoking advocates called on lawmakers Thursday to make bars and restaurants in Oklahoma smoke-free by closing loopholes in the state law restricting smoking in public places.

[Freedom still]

With sales taxes down- is this really a good idea?? I am NO smoker. I think they have a right to do as they plez. What about a SMOKING ONLY place??? People would call it discrimination- well what is this called?? When people go to bars the majority of them are SMOKERS. Its like a bunch of grades schoolers. Lets create MORE laws, this is really ridiculous.

[Very Sad]

Freedom still wrote:

With sales taxes down- is this really a good idea?? I am NO smoker. I think they have a right to do as they plez. What about a SMOKING ONLY place??? People would call it discrimination- well what is this called?? When people go to bars the majority of them are SMOKERS. Its like a bunch of grades schoolers. Lets create MORE laws, this is really ridiculous.

Wouldn't bother me one bit if they banned smoking from bars. I just think it's awful that people with asthma, etc. can't even go out and watch bands, etc. because of smoke. JMO, and I know most don't agree.

[Smoke less]

Lets really crake down and money and smoke $$, make the Casinos no smoking! LOL

[observor]

Why don't these people try to save someone that needs saving, like children and leave the rest of us alone. The ones trying to shove more laws down our throats are the same ones drinking several glasses of wine with their meals and driving with their children in their cars. So until you get your head out of the dark place SHUT UP.

[Very Sad]

observor wrote:

Why don't these people try to save someone that needs saving, like children and leave the rest of us alone. The ones trying to shove more laws down our throats are the same ones drinking several glasses of wine with their meals and driving with their children in their cars. So until you get your head out of the dark place SHUT UP.

Dang....I'm all for banning smoking in as many places as possible, and I do not have several glasses of wine with my dinner and drive my children around. Where is all this hostility coming from?

[Freedom]

Very Sad wrote:

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Wouldn't bother me one bit if they banned smoking from bars. I just think it's awful that people with asthma, etc. can't even go out and watch bands, etc. because of smoke. JMO, and I know most don't agree.

Perhaps you simply never thought of the precedents these bans bring with them?

Tell us...when the owner of the property is forced to change their LEGAL lifestyle of choice on their own land...even in their private office all alone...what loss of rights would you quote?

When like minded individuals lose the right to gather together indoors in peace and comfort to enjoy a LEGAL lifestyle of choice...what loss of rights would quote?

If this can now be done to one LEGAL lifestyle of choice...what protects others if the new self righteous moral busybodies turn their sights on them?

What a dangerous precedent indeed...for those who understand the difference between legal and illegal.

[Bodidly]

I am thinking it is a good idea... because waitresses and waiters have to go into those smoked filled places to serve the customer!!! second hand smoke is actually worse

[Very Sad]

Freedom wrote:

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Perhaps you simply never thought of the precedents these bans bring with them?
Tell us...when the owner of the property is forced to change their LEGAL lifestyle of choice on their own land...even in their private office all alone...what loss of rights would you quote?
When like minded individuals lose the right to gather together indoors in peace and comfort to enjoy a LEGAL lifestyle of choice...what loss of rights would quote?
If this can now be done to one LEGAL lifestyle of choice...what protects others if the new self righteous moral busybodies turn their sights on them?
What a dangerous precedent indeed...for those who understand the difference between legal and illegal.

I know what you mean by all that. I'm all for people doing what they choose in their own homes. However, smoking in public places harms people who are NOT smoking. Kinda' like drinking and driving harms people who are not doing it. I just feel like people with lung diseases, asthma, etc should be able to go hang out with friends at a bar, without having to breathe in smoke. JMO

[DRM]

Bodidly wrote:

I am thinking it is a good idea... because waitresses and waiters have to go into those smoked filled places to serve the customer!!! second hand smoke is actually worse

SHS is worse? come on! the employee's don't have to work anywhere they have any problem with. They don't like to work where others smoke they can always work somewhere else, nobody forces them to work there.

[Tulsa Mom]

Thank You, I'm a smoker but respect non-smokers. We have the same rights as others.

Freedom still wrote:

With sales taxes down- is this really a good idea?? I am NO smoker. I think they have a right to do as they plez. What about a SMOKING ONLY place??? People would call it discrimination- well what is this called?? When people go to bars the majority of them are SMOKERS. Its like a bunch of grades schoolers. Lets create MORE laws, this is really ridiculous.

[Tulsa Mom]

Sorry, TY-PO We should have the same rights

[Our choice]

Very Sad wrote:

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I know what you mean by all that. I'm all for people doing what they choose in their own homes. However, smoking in public places harms people who are NOT smoking. Kinda' like drinking and driving harms people who are not doing it. I just feel like people with lung diseases, asthma, etc should be able to go hang out with friends at a bar, without having to breathe in smoke. JMO

The government should not be able to ban smoking in places that people can chose to go to or not. The business should be able to make that decision. If they think they can gain business by going nonsmoking then go ahead. If they think they can make more money by having it so smokey you can hardly see; then that is what they should be able to do. No one is forced to go to the bar, casino, or any other similar place. The government needs to keep out of individuals rights.

[People]

Ok, I am not a smoker and I think this a little to much. Here it is laid out. Let's ban smoking in bars but still allow the bar to serve alchol till 2am while some patrons get to drunk to drive home but do anyway, hmm, makes sense to me, not! Sounds like more of a witch hunt of the season, next season our dirty polictians will be attacking some other freedom of ours.

[People]

Bodidly wrote:

I am thinking it is a good idea... because waitresses and waiters have to go into those smoked filled places to serve the customer!!! second hand smoke is actually worse

Nobody forced them to work there in first place, that is a dirty political trick.

[texasRanger]

This is not about health, I ask you what if they start banning things you can do at home give them an inch an they will take a mile

[Very Sad]

Our choice wrote:

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The government should not be able to ban smoking in places that people can chose to go to or not. The business should be able to make that decision. If they think they can gain business by going nonsmoking then go ahead. If they think they can make more money by having it so smokey you can hardly see; then that is what they should be able to do. No one is forced to go to the bar, casino, or any other similar place. The government needs to keep out of individuals rights.

Everywhere you go is a choice. All I'm saying is this is a health issue. It's pretty sad that people with certain health conditions can't enjoy going to a bar, etc. What is so wrong with having to go outside to smoke? I totally understand that you don't want other individual liberties taken away. I'm only for banning the one's that harm others.

[just candid]

It's well known that most drunks, degenerates and other lowlife riffraff type people smoke cigarettes.

[Bodidly]

DRM wrote:

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SHS is worse? come on! the employee's don't have to work anywhere they have any problem with. They don't like to work where others smoke they can always work somewhere else, nobody forces them to work there.

really... we are in a recession (depression) and jobs are hard to come by

[Bodidly]

People wrote:

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Nobody forced them to work there in first place, that is a dirty political trick.

You must be a bout a 3 pack a day smoker???? are you???

[okrocker]

if the government spent as much time balancing the budget as they do trying to restrict our freedoms, we would not be in such a crappy mess. p s - i am a non smoker.