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12-31-2007, 04:08 PM | #1 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Chicago Suburbs
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| Anyone in Illinois? The state goes Smoke-Free tomorrow!!!! I'm SO excited I have a whole list of restaurants I want to go to that I could never go to before. No more going out to eat at 4:30 with the old people so we could eat before it got smoky. No more having to first check if it's smoky. No more showers or wheezing when I get home because I can't breathe!!! I'm also so happy for all of the servers and families with kids who don't have to deal with the smoke any more!
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12-31-2007, 04:20 PM | #2 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada
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| We have been smoke free in Ontario for so long now that I forget what it was like when we could smoke in public places????? I myself smoke but I do not enjoy a room full of smoke either...I step outside if I need to have one which is fine with me...you will really love the change although it takes a while for the smokers to get used to it..thats for sure!! lol Dawn |
12-31-2007, 04:23 PM | #3 |
Kyle Plus 3 Donating Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Washington, DC
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| Wow, that's great. Hopefully it'll actually be ENFORCED. I think Philadelphia is supposedly "smoke-free" but it's definitely not enforced.
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12-31-2007, 04:25 PM | #4 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada
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12-31-2007, 04:30 PM | #5 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Beverly,MA
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| That is so awsome for you! |
12-31-2007, 04:34 PM | #6 |
Kyle Plus 3 Donating Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Washington, DC
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| So I looked and it is "smoke-free." I was thinking that being "smoke-free" meant you couldn't smoke while walking down the streets but you can. That's when it's the worst/most common.
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12-31-2007, 04:40 PM | #7 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Palatka, Florida
Posts: 6,523
| YAY for you!! I Wish they would make it Smoke Free In my town. I'm sorry but I can't stand cig smoke. especially with my sinuses. It makes me so nauseated. My Mom's friend smokes and her car smells like smoke. GROSS |
12-31-2007, 04:44 PM | #8 |
Spoilin' Tilly & Jack Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Indiana
Posts: 2,227
| YAY!!! I never go to places that tend to smell like smoke but it's nice when laws like this are passed! Esp. in restaurants, just because some people like their food to taste like smoke, not all of us do. LOL
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12-31-2007, 04:47 PM | #9 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Chicago Suburbs
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| The new Illinois law says you have to be 15 feet from entrances, which will not be enforced. I hate walking into a building and having to walk past 5 people huddled in the door smoking. That's not fair. But I doubt they will police that. Inside I'm pretty confident will be OK. I agree it's bad walking down the street or even driving! I always get stuck next to or behind someone at a light with their cigarette sticking out the window and there's nowhere to go to get away. After my vent sucks it all in we are sitting there with our windows open trying to breathe. I'll never forget last summer when we were at our town's parade. We set blankets and chairs out at 6am to save a spot. Of course there were tons of kids and families and some jerk was sitting next to us smoking. I asked him if he had to do that because there were kids and everything and it was bothering us, and he said "You don't like it, you move" and the childish "It's a free country lady" I'm sorry but that's just rude. You don't stand in a crowd of people like that and smoke, especially if someone asks you to stop. I only know a few smokers but they all are polite about their smoking.
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12-31-2007, 05:10 PM | #10 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In my house :)
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| Yep, I'm in Illinois and I can't wait to go into a resteraunt and enjoy a meal without the smell of cigarrette smoke. I never understood the 'smoking' section not having a door anyway...now we'll have more seating options too! Now...if they could just control cell phones and unruly children! |
12-31-2007, 05:24 PM | #11 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 6,111
| I feel its a pretty fair law as it stands right now...I smoke outside but I am careful not to smoke around people who dont smoke. I do smoke in my van though and outside my home. I guess unless cigarettes are outlawed all together you cant ban it completely...I do think its fair that its banned from inside public buildings, such as restaurants, bars, theaters etc..enclosed places like that are enough to make even me as a smoker sick. Dawn |
12-31-2007, 05:27 PM | #12 |
Donating YT 14K Club Member | It's been that way where I live for a while now. There are NO restaurants that have a smoking section anymore there is one bar that I know of that you have to go outside to smoke. I think it's a great idea. While I am a smoker, I smoke outside and occasionally in my car. I HATE the way that smoke smells...especially heavy smokers...yuck!
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01-01-2008, 12:07 AM | #13 |
Mom to 6 Beautiful Furkids Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ohio
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| They passed that law here for a little while now. I love it!! I now can go into restaurants without having to ask for the non-smoking section and I can enjoy a smoke free meal!!
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01-01-2008, 07:42 AM | #14 |
Mojo, LilyGrace & Me Donating Member Moderator Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: cuddling with my babies<3
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| I think AR went smoke free last year or the year before. You have to be a long way away from a building to smoke and any place (bar included) that sales food, you can not smoke. So a lot of bars here had to decide if they wanted to stop selling food to allow people to still smoke in there. I don't smoke, so I am not certain how it all works. When my grandfather was alive (he didn't die of lung cancer), he would never smoke in anyone's car, house or an eating place...he would always go outside...just as respect to others. BUT he hated (as did I) going to a place to eat and the non-smoking and smoking areas were not even really divided...
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01-01-2008, 07:44 AM | #15 |
Aubrey's Mom Donating Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Georgia
Posts: 9,369
| We have been smoke free in Georgia and I love it!!! The only part I hate,is smokers love to just stand right by the door where you have to walk into the buliding and smoke!! uuhhhh |
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