Rendell right to protest weak smoking law

The Erie Daily Times just wont let this go...Banning smoking bars is hypocritical...adults go to bars,if adults are allowed by law to consume alchol in a bar them they should be allowed to smoke cigarettes. Its as simple as that. The Emergency rooms at hamot and saint vincent are not overflowing with people who were at Sherlocks watching Disco Inferno but had to be rushed to the above mentioned ER's because they are dying of second hand smoke. If anything they have injured people from drunken bar fights. If the government wants to ban smking in most public places fine. But Not in bars and clubs. Its hypocrtitical. The world has bigger problems right now...a total of around 20,000 people in Mynamar and China who recently lost theyre lives to Natural Disasters come to mind.

hip-cup!! excuse me, bar tender one more beer and a screw driver please. then i can go home. by the way bar tender make that a 6 pack i got 20 miles to drive.....point is folks.. when the state and county complains about smoking they went hog wild to make things happen. but to keep a drunk off the road so they will not hurt or kill you and your love one. do you think they care. last year a drunk kill a man in girard and see how many live he screw up. 1. wife 2. wife parents 3 dead man parents, 4 brother and sister of the deacease and then his own family. that one act affect over hundred of people where they went after smoking that a long term if the cig does the killing??? because their randon smog from auto and but there an out cry from citizen that want to have smoke free area. so where is the outcry for the doing something about these drunks. and then we have these folks who feel their right out weight the right of the owner of the bussiness. folks if you wish to have a bussiness that doesn't allow smoking then please go to the bank borrow 200,000 dollars and open one. beside more and more business are going smoke free we do not need laws on the books to say so. because if we do then we need to have law and real enforcement about anyone who drinks a drink in the bar and charge them dui enforce all laws or shut up

Rendell will soon join Hillarys campaign as V.P. candidate. Goodbye. Goodbye.

ohhhhhhh god there goes the united states down the drain. he was not good for pa. trying to be a dictator and now you want him to be a v.p
he also has done harm with his safe air act polluntion control and you want him to screw up the usa. my god these people

I've got an idea. Do nothing. Everything will be OK. Really, it will.

Weak legislation? The ETN presents an article as if there are is not smoking regulation as of now. Since around 1991 PA passed regulations that does not allow smoking in most places. Most of this covered places where people were considered not to be able to no avoid such as offices. The leftislation did allow businesses to have smoking rooms or smoking areas. For most businesses this could have been expensive so they just disallowed smoking. Bars, taverns and eateries are more fluid with high changovers. Even the weak claims made by the tobacco control groups second handsmoke exposure would have to be at high levels for it to present even a minor risk for 30 years at more for 40 hours a week. This is based on weak statititical questioneers not sound science. Studies on the studies show a full 8% of misclaissification of people to be claiming themselves as non-smokers from SHS studies compare that to the 0.003% of lifetime exposure risk and and the 0.003% risk becomes non-existent.

Im surpirsed people aggree with my post! Im not against Banning smoking in most public places..even restaurants...not that anyone cafres what im for or against lol...but like nemo31 stated,40 hours a week in a bar for 30 years..if any one is spending that much time in bars for that long of time maybe they have more than a nicotine addiction! just sayin,

ken wrote:

Im surpirsed people aggree with my post! Im not against Banning smoking in most public places..even restaurants...not that anyone cafres what im for or against lol...but like nemo31 stated,40 hours a week in a bar for 30 years..if any one is spending that much time in bars for that long of time maybe they have more than a nicotine addiction! just sayin,

Interesting observation; from a different Ken. LOL