Reply #13: Call it the punish smokers act of 2006

[mongo]

There is no way to make a reasonable accomodation for your smoking employees in the workplace.

You cannot have a designated smoking area inside a building, even if it has seperate ventilation.

You cannot have an OUTSIDE enclosed area with a roof and walls on 3 sides that is only designated for smoking.

All smokers go stand out side in the rain now!

And issue 5 won by lying about issue 4. Their "allows smoking in restaurants" claim? You can write any smoking ban law you want -- but issue 4 would have allowed a restaurant to have a smoking area IF
AND ONLY IF it was a seperate enclosed area, seperated from the rest of the restaurant by walls and doors, and with a seperate ventillation system.


So, woo hoo all you that voted for issue 5 -- most of you in cities that ALREADY had bans anyway. The only place where you wouldn't have been able to ban smoking is a BAR. And I'm sure that a good percentage of bars would have remained non-smoking.

But who the hell is for choice when you can force others to conform to your will, not allow a way to make a reasonable accomodation, and generally PUNISH smokers!



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