Do you support Kansas’ indoor smoking ban? / LJWorld.com

Asked at Massachusetts Street on May 4, 2012

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“I support it. I think it’s good for businesses, too, because some people won’t go out if there’s smoking around.”

— Colleen Pollock, student, Seattle

“(Smoking) should be allowed in certain areas.”

— Jennifer McCullough, server, Overland Park

“I think there should be designated smoking areas.”

— Tom Tucker, retired, Garnett

“I prefer no-smoking inside places.”

— Adam Benfor, graduate student, Lawrence

Jensen urges legislators to reject bill to weaken indoor smoking ban

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shygirl 1 year, 1 month ago

As a smoker, yeah I wish I could smoke inside. As a mother, and the girlfriend of someone who can't be around smoke I understand the need for the ban.

Yeah, it's funny until you realize that you're subsidizing those oxygen tanks with your own insurance premiums. If you're that serious, you shouldn't just be laughing at them. You should be doing everything you can to keep kids from starting in the first place.

crazyks 1 year, 1 month ago

Really.

And there has never been a non-smoker who got older and had to use oxygen, huh?

Someday you'll be a wrinkled old geezer...and maybe you'll remember this day and what you said...

You have no humanity...

RoeDapple 1 year, 1 month ago

"Do you smoke after sex?"

"I don't know, I never looked . . ."

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 1 year, 1 month ago

I like to sit on the porch and watch the lightning.

elliottaw 1 year, 1 month ago

I will not take my children or myself to any place that allows smoking, it is digusting and nothing but posion, there are studies out the wazo about how harmful smoking is to those who do it and those who are exposed to second hand smoke, if you want tosit in your house and kill yourself than by all means go ahead and do it, I wont stop you. But just because you can't get over your own adddiction doesn't mean that I should be forced to expose my children, or the workers at these places to your posions, and the chemicals from the smoke are still dangerous days/weeks later. Then there is the whole subject of cigette butts all over the place because they feel it is ok for themselves to just toss them on the ground or out of their car windows when they drive. They are also driving up the cost of health care because smokers are proven to be more sickly than the average joe.

mcmandy 1 year, 1 month ago

You have the right to choose to not take your children to places that allow smoking. People also have the right to choose not to work in places that allow smoking. Business owners should have the right to decide if smoking is allowed in their establishment. Incidentally, with 25% of Americans smoking and 35.7% overweight, I am a bit more concerned about the the later. (CDC)

MarcoPogo 1 year, 1 month ago

There is so much farting in restaurants as it is. I don't see how yours are going to be anything special. You can't outdo the India Palace crowd, buddy.

none2 1 year, 1 month ago

Have you thought of plugging yourself up the next time you eat Indian? That might fix your problem.

JackMcKee 1 year, 1 month ago

Yea but what's your stance on dumpster diving dates?

RoeDapple 1 year, 1 month ago

Tarantulas are squishy when you step on them.

milkman_dan 1 year, 1 month ago

I'm all about progress and evolution. Breast feeding and placenta consumption are fine by me but, let's leave smoking in the last millennium.

ms_canada 1 year, 1 month ago

We in Alberta, Canada have had an indoor smoking ban for many years and seem to cope with that just fine. The pubs and restaurants did not go out of business as was feared. We are humans and are very adaptable beings. But adapting to lung cancer is not much fun.

Jon Jambor 1 year, 1 month ago

Would someone PLEASE explain to me why the State forbids smoking in private establishments, but exempts its own casinos?

jonas_opines 1 year, 1 month ago

$$$$

none2 1 year, 1 month ago

bingo?

rockchalker52 1 year, 1 month ago

Smoking on the open-air decks & patios only, folks. It ain't that hard. Is there no common sense & civility left anywhere in the world? Smoking inside is gross. McFadden can suck it, tho. His arguments do. And why is he dissin' the little girls?

littlexav 1 year, 1 month ago

Right, until everywhere allows smoking, in which case your "freedom" of "choice" leaves you stuck in your house. I don't think so. States have the power to pass laws in the interest of the health and wellbeing of their citizens, and this is one of those things. It's the epitome of "constitutional," dare i say moreso than capitalism.

none2 1 year, 1 month ago

"...Just because you want something doesn't mean you're entitled to it."

That is what Massasoit, Squanto, and Samoset tried to explain to the English, but somehow it got lost in translation.

none2 1 year, 1 month ago

Nevertheless, it proves a point:

It is a fallacy to believe that property rights were ever important in our country. Our country was founded and expanded based on the belief that you can do whatever you want with someone else's land.

Pywacket 1 year, 1 month ago

That's a total BS reply. Nonsmokers had had it (obviously, since the ban was approved) with smokers ruining every effing public spot--restaurants, bars, bowling alleys, and (not that long ago) even planes. Staying home 24/7 is not a "common sense solution." It equates to being bullied into missing out on many social activities. And your arrogant attitude is typical of smokers who poisoned everyone's air with no regard whatsoever for others' rights or comfort.

How would you like that attitude turned around? That is: if you don't like the ban, no one is forcing you to patronize any establishment that enforces the law. Stay home and grow your cancer cells. That's the common sense solution.

Or (amazing idea) wean yourself off the nasty stuff and join everybody in smoke-free venues. That's the thing. You don't HAVE to smoke if you're in a restaurant or bar. But the rest of us have to breathe. We can't run outside for a 5-minute oxygen break that will carry us through the next hour. Allowing smoking in virtually every venue was inherently unfair to anyone who didn't want to breathe smoke or go home stinking of it. The law has righted a longstanding wrong.