DC Smoking Ban Vote Today

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I sure didn't move here for the culture. Almost moved away for the lack thereof, but hell if you aint got culture, create your own.

[Frank Gallagher]

That's bs...there's loads of culture in D.C.
 
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[devileyes]

INGREDIENTS OF CIGARETTES besides tobacco:
 
 paint thinner (acetone), floor cleaner (ammonia), bug spray (DDT/Deildrin), rat poison (arsenic), lighter fluid (hexamine), carbon monoxide, gas poison (hydrogen cyanide), alcohol (ethanol), sewer gas(methane), rocket fuel (methanol), mothballs (napthalene), insecticide (nicotine), candle wax (stearic acid),
 industrial solvent (toluene),
 dead body preservative (formaldehyde)
 
 Dear Mr Gaines, it appears YOU are the stupid fuck to inhale this shit!!!

[Frank Gallagher]

Hold on a minute...if everyone stopped smoking how would they replace the tax revenue they generate.
 
 SMOKE! SMOKE AS MANY AS YOU CAN....IN FACT, I'M GOING TO START CARRYING A LIGHTER SO I CAN HELP THEM LIGHT UP AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE.

[ggw]

Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:
  Hold on a minute...if everyone stopped smoking how would they replace the tax revenue they generate.

Legalize and tax America's fourth largest cash crop.

[mrdarcey]

Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:
  oh god...is this thread going to end up with the DC residents of the board (who I can almost guarantee not a single one of them was born in DC)start the tired and worn "Don't you tell us what to do with our bars and restaurants you scum suburbanites" shit?

OK, I might not be such a resident of this board, but you can have a glance at my crappy, Sibley Hospital reading, photostatic birth certificate any time you like.  So lay your hands off my bars, yeah?
 
 Besides, where will Hitchens drink now?  There's your 25% loss.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by mrdarcey:
 Besides, where will Hitchens drink now?  There's your 25% loss.

i saw hitchens a few months ago at milano and the dude was DRINKING (and chain smoking) ... my uncle was in town and wanted to go see "famous for dc" people

[vansmack]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Legalize and tax America's fourth largest cash crop.

Just don't do this!
 
 Italian Lawmakers to Consider Porn Tax
 Thursday, December 8, 2005
 (12-08) 15:45 PST ROME, Italy (AP) --
 
 
 Italians would have to pay a 20 percent tax on pornography according to a budget amendment that cleared a first legislative hurdle, news reports said Thursday.
 
 The proposed tax was approved at committee level and is expected to go before the Chamber of Deputies, Italy's lower parliamentary house, early next week.
 
 The tax is expected to raise about euro220 million (US$260 million) to help reduce the national deficit and to help fund government tax breaks to families.
 
 "I believe the porn tax is important not for moralistic reasons, which don't concern me, but because I think that at a time of difficult economic conditions for families it is right to tax products that are not essential," lawmaker Daniela Santache was quoted as saying by the ANSA news agency.
 
 URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/12/08/international/i093409S10.DTL

[Frank Gallagher]

Originally posted by mrdarcey:
   

Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:
  oh god...is this thread going to end up with the DC residents of the board (who I can almost guarantee not a single one of them was born in DC)start the tired and worn "Don't you tell us what to do with our bars and restaurants you scum suburbanites" shit?

OK, I might not be such a resident of this board, but you can have a glance at my crappy, Sibley Hospital reading, photostatic birth certificate any time you like.  So lay your hands off my bars, yeah?
 
 Besides, where will Hitchens drink now?  There's your 25% loss. [/b]

My son was born in GW....does that make me a dc native by proxy?  

Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:
 My son was born in GW....does that make me a dc native by proxy?

Yes!  
 
 There, are you happy now?
 
 Now when are you gonna come clean about the Daggers & Pucaras???

[Medusa]

I know I'll catch flak for this, but the sooner this ban goes into effect the better.
 
 Cheers
 
 DJ Medusa.

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Medusa:
  I know I'll catch flak for this, but the sooner this ban goes into effect the better.
 
 Cheers
 
 DJ Medusa.

I agree!

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Medusa:
  I know I'll catch flak for this, but the sooner this ban goes into effect the better.
 
 Cheers
 
 DJ Medusa.

I think you'll be surprised/happy to learn that more people support it then you think.
 
 They're just not as outspoken as the smokers as they're not "losing" anything.

[HoyaSaxa03]

http://www.dcist.com/archives/2005/12/11/opinionist_dc_smoking_ban.php

[sparklygirl]

I also support the ban since I'm allergic to cig smoke and my sinuses get congested, stinging eyes, sneezing etc when the ventilation is shit.  Will definetely go out more if it ever includes bars.