Don't Feed the Fat People in Mississippi

We have smoking bans in Colorado. Even the 'Limited-Stakes' ($5 MAX bet) casino's have forbid smoking. I know that they have complained about lost sales as well as bar owners complaining about lost sales. The matter should be up to the establishment and not the state.

Also.. I have family in Mississippi and I grew up in the tri-state area and I have to say there are LOTS of overweight people in the area. It's a huge problem. But you know the cause don't you? It's all that really good and fattening food. The food down south is SOOOOO good yet soooo not good for you. Several in my family are severely overweight. :-(

that my closest town to me has "Banned smoking bans". LOL . I love wyoming....

No one expects the bill to pass. They do expect a lively discussion in subcommittee about ways the state can solve its' obesity problems.

I am betting (and hoping) that they don't get the "discussion" they are thinking they will get on the subject. Perhaps people will let them know that if they could have decent jobs at a pay that would afford decent food instead of what's least expensive to feed their families maybe they wouldn't have such a problem. I can remember times when it was all I could do to keep the table ready for growing children and provide nutrition at the same time. Unbelievable! aaaahhhhhhhh

The friction between smokers and non-smokers is never going to go away as long as we have to breathe the same air. There was a discussion about this on another thread that got me to thinking about it. Property rights are supreme, but if we are to maintain businesses with the premise that it is open to the general public, then we have to remember that our personal liberties reach only as far as to when they begin to erode the rights of others. I say if a proprietor wishes to have a smoking establishment, then he should have it. But advertise it as such. I know in my state some people chose to make their establishments private clubs where you had to pay a fee to be a member and have your name on a membership list in order to enjoy that facility. I'm sure there will be some crank who will employ the ACLU and sue to gain entry as a non-smoker and try to ruin it for everyone, but that is another matter.

I am a former smoker who regrets the countless number of times I offended friends and strangers with my cigarette smoke, ashes and stink. I have a niece who gets deathly ill whenever she is exposed to cigarette smoke, her sister, gets asthma attacks from it.

Please smokers, remember. Your right to smoke does not supercede the right of others to breath clean indoor air.

Now, about the fat bill. I don't know what to say about that. That's just wrong.

Things are only impossible until they are not.
-- Jean Luc Picard

is what they're seeking.

What to eat, drink, smoke, etc.

If I want to weigh 300lbs and smoke 4 packs a day that's no one else's business but mine as long as I'm not asking anyone else to pay for it. (No, I don't weigh 300 lbs or smoke 4 pkk/day)

A business owner has every right to post a "This is a Smoking Establishment, If You Don't Like It Please Eat Elsewhere" sign on the front door if a restaurant or club.

Why to the health Nazis think it is their right to tell everyone else how to live? If I'm a smoker and my tax dollars paid for that county street, parking lot, etc....Why shouldn't I be able to use it to smoke; it's not like it's inside a building where other people have to be trapped in with the smoke.

Sounds like they're aiming for complete control of the sheeple in that county; and it's time for some new elected officials in that place. Glad I don't live there!

for quite some time now in all public places ... and yes, it has affected bars and pubs right across the country.
In Summer not a real problem, we go and sit outside, but in Winter, or any colder sort of weather... the pubs are empty.

It's an example of hypocracy. Laws to forbid smoking but not illegal to sell it. Again, follow the money.

If smoking is as dangerous as all the governmental research claims it is...it should be declared illegal.
But I guess the government needs the tax money...and there is a lot of it on cigarettes.Over half of the price is either state or federal tax.
I always wondered how government could justify taxing a substance that their own research has proven is ADDICTIVE...hmmm...the government is as greedy as the tobacco companies??? No shame.

Perhaps eventually they can accuse smoking parents of child abuse...or at least take their children away for smoking in their homes and endangering the children. Then they can get more free children and keep the tax money rolling in at the same time. What a plan.