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post #31 of 34
10/27/08 at 2:13pm
I just heard some truly horrible news. There was a bar in Pasadena where I would frequently go to grab a Belgian beer and smoke a cigar out on the patio. Just the other day the city passed an ordinance making it ILLEGAL to smoke outside restaurants (and a hell of a lot of other places, too):
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The new rules will prohibit smoking in outdoor shopping and dining areas, in ATM and movie ticket lines, within 20 feet of building entrances and at outdoor events like the Rose Parade. That would make it nearly impossible to smoke in Old Pasadena, and other commercial districts of the city. Violators would be fined $100 for a first offense, $200 for a second and $500 for third or subsequent violations, according to staff reports. Smoking in parks is already prohibited in the city. Smoking in parking lots, alleyways, and outside of service entrances or other non-public building entrances would still be permitted, according to Dr. Takashi Wada, of the city's Public Health Department.
Fuuuck.
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post #32 of 34
10/27/08 at 2:16pm
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Originally Posted by whodini View Post
I just heard some truly horrible news. There was a bar in Pasadena where I would frequently go to grab a Belgian beer and smoke a cigar out on the patio. Just the other day the city passed an ordinance making it ILLEGAL to smoke outside restaurants (and a hell of a lot of other places, too):


Fuuuck.

These assholes just don't quit, do they?
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post #33 of 34
10/27/08 at 8:07pm
When they passed the ban on smoking in bars in LA years ago people joked that in the future it'd be illegal to smoke in California. Har har. Honestly, I'm all for keeping smoke out of bars. There's nowhere for it to go but glued into your clothes. But banning smoking on an outdoor patio or hell, the sidewalk? Maybe put up smoking/non-smoking sections but fining $100 per incident (or being charged with a misdemeanor) is crazy. For fellow angelenos, is anyone surprised Santa Monica didn't try to pass this first?
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post #34 of 34
11/9/08 at 7:11pm
^^Damn anti-smoking nazis. It always cracks me up how fervently smoke-ophobic people are, while at the same time feeding their children Taco Bell as if it were actual food. Gotta love hypocrisy. John Stewart explained the companion-cigarette phenomenon pretty well when he said "Look at this coffee. It's good, but it could be better. It's incomplete. It cannot do alone what it can do with a cigarette. It's LONELY" I expect part of it also has to do with the psychology of vice. When we drink, the mind goes into more of a "hell, you only live once" mentality, which means that if ever you've enjoyed a smoke, you want one then. Edit: I read an article a little while back that had a comparison between fast food and smoking. To the human heart, a Happy Meal is indistinguishable from two cigarettes. Now THAT should be a commercial.
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