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Charleston Bans Smoking

Legend has it that there was once a sign on all of the bridges leading into Charleston, SC, the stated “Welcome to Charleston. Unencumbered by Progress for the Past 100 Years.” Putting together “innovative” and Charleston in the identical sentence is an oxymoron. Recently the Charleston Town Council heard a rumor concerning something called second smoke. After a little bit of research they were shocked to discover that cities like LA and New York had banned smoking from public places.

 

 

 

Now, being one among America’s favorite vacation destinations, they couldn’t let those other well-liked spots do something they weren’t doing. Particularly them damn Yankees from New York City. The last time the City got this riled they launched a few cannonballs out into the bay at Ft. Sumter which started the Yank Civil War.

 

 

 

With abundant hand wringing and gnashing of teeth by local bar and restaurant homeowners, Charleston Town Council passed a ban on all smoking in public places. The non-smokers in the Low Country are respiration a sigh of relief; the bar and restaurant of us are threatening a law suit. Apparently they haven’t noticed that it is easier to search out a place to park a dumpster then it's to seek out an area to smoke these days. Courts from one finish of the country to the opposite have upheld these bans.

 

 

 

Usually we return down on the facet of the Bill of Rights and the Initial Amendment’s Freedom of Assembly clause. If folks want to assemble and smoke a legal and highly taxed product, what business is it of local government? If nobody is being held against their will in these places, where is the matter? We tend to would realize these laws easier to swallow if they gave restaurant the option of being smoking or non-smoking with signs clearly marked on the door. But the promoters of the nanny state are never willing to go along with this.

 

 

 

As non-smokers we have a tendency to’ve figured out what places to avoid as a result of they're smoked filled. Smoke billowing out to street whenever the front door is opened is typically the first clue. In the West Ashley suburb of Charleston, you learn pretty quickly that you'll lose sight of your server within the haze of the smoke at Manny’s and the food at the Map Area starts tasting sort of a nicotine patch after nine pm. If one of those places wants to become a personal club for smokers then let them go at it. Make it illegal for anyone beneath 18 to enter. If the bar owners assume they will create additional cash than honoring the ban, therefore be it.

 

 

 

The larger concern is what will they target next? McDonald’s french fries haven’t been the identical since the quit cooking them in lard. Then “trans fats” were bad. Keep in mind “saccharin?” Once winning the anti-smoking battle does anyone seriously think the “health Nazis” can disband and begin leading a traditional, productive life? Don’t count on it.

 

 

 

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