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Monday, February 26, 2007
Although I am not a smoker
Although I am not a smoker, I feel that it was very
unconstitutinal to tell business owners (most in
paticular Bar-owners) how to
run their business. I come from Pueblo where I believe the first ban was
passed,
and when they passed it then, it was bad, and even now it is
still bad. I knew of a landlord who could not smoke in
his own house
because he used his house as his office. That not only made the owner of
properties mad, but me
as well, because it is his own house, and he could
not smoke in it. Just before I moved to montrose (for schooling
purposes) Montrose had plenty of places that were set up or sealed off for
ventalation purposes for smokers, which
did not bother non-smokers. Now
that the law has been passed, these "Smoke fans" and "Ventalated areas"
are just waste of space and money, because there is no use of them.
These costed lots of money to install. Going
back to the Pueblo Issue the
council passed it "...[F]or the health of the employees". I have k!
now
many bar-owners that do not smoke, and they have not been effected
by, as the health department calls it, "second
hand smoke" plus plenty
of bartenders or waitresses that serve in bars tend to be smokers
themselves. Colorado should never have passed the ban, and I think it should
be
repealed. Another thing I forgo to mention is the fact that when
Pueblo council passed the ban, there was an attempt
to recall the ban, but
it did not pass, because many people did not know about the special
election (since it
was given on some day that was not even close to an
election day) plus many of the people that were registered voters
could
not vote because they were living in the county, and only people in the
city could vote, so the bar owners
that lived in the countycould not
repeal their right to speak up to the council.
8:37 pm mst
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