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Smoking is legal. Prohibition didn’t work in the ’20s with alcohol and it won’t work now. If you think the county can afford to pay ‘‘smoke police’’ then you have another thing coming. Why don’t you pay to have people arrested for smoking on the streets that ALL people pay for? I am a tax payer as well as hundreds of other people. And guess what??? NON-SMOKERS are not the only people that walk down the streets of Jamestown or any other street in this country.
If you believe all the hype, rhetoric, and false statements about the dangers of second-hand smoke then I guess you believe what ever you want to believe.
Why doesn’t the government outlaw cigarettes completely? Why does the government subsidize the tobacco industry? Why is it that the smokers pay one more extra tax that non-smokers pay? Where did all the money go from the Tobacco Settlement Agreement? What is all the money from the American Cancer Society, Lung Association and Heart association spent on. Do some research. I have been researching these questions for more than four years now.
If the government were to outlaw tobacco, where do you think they would go to make up the loss from the taxes?? Your pocket. Watch what you wish for because it might come back and bite you. This smoke law is social engineering, engineered by do-gooders and special interest groups. With all the money spent on television ads from these groups and the pharmaceutical industry, every American citizen would have health insurance.
The elected officials in government were not put in office to protect us from ourselves. Everyone is an individual. This is not a perfect world nor will it ever be. Smoking is a legal product and smokers are not social outcasts. We are not second hand citizens.
Look around this county and see how many bars, bingo halls, and restaurants have closed or are struggling. How many clubs can you say are doing well since the ban. I can tell you: none. If anyone wants to research this just ask the establishments if they have lost revenue and how many donations they can give now to the differents organizations that they used to give to. It’s really pathetic when the market place can’t dictate what is good for their business. We are not ‘‘publicly owned.’’People come to these places by CHOICE. This is AMERICA. LAND OF THE FREE. Yeah, right, free to pay taxes and let the government dictate our lives. We're all monkeys in a barrel to people like Spitzer and Bloomberg and they are getting away with such BS. Really sux man!