Cleanup duty
To the editor:
The city leaders passed the smoking ban and now they are perplexed about what to do with all the cigarette butts on the street. The recent Journal-World poll offered solutions such as: A) The city pick up the trash; B) Fine the smokers; C) The city purchase additional trash receptacles; D) The business owners pick up the tab.
Here is a new idea: The city leaders that created this mess with their smoking ban should be dispatched daily to clean up the mess.
This smoking ban is a direct attack on the rights and liberty of business owners. The role of government is to ensure liberty, not limit it. It is time to repeal the ban.
Mark Varble,
Lawrence