Beer Burkas: Utah Legislators Require Restaurants To Install “Zion Curtains” To Prevent Customers From Seeing Beers Being Opened or Poured

Beer Burkas: Utah Legislators Require Restaurants To Install “Zion Curtains” To Prevent Customers From Seeing Beers Being Opened or Poured « JONATHAN TURLEY:

There is no rational basis for this limitation as a matter of public health. These reports indicate that some businesses are considering leaving the state or at least not expanding in the state, which appears the objective of some who support the arbitrary limitations. This law is ripe for a constitutional challenge.

Never having been to a bar in Utah I have nothing really to say about the issue.
But it seems odd to know there is a place where you can't even see your own bartender.

Smokers move to the edge

Smokers move to the edge - News - Montana Kaimin - University of Montana:

Clemmensen said he is more concerned about the cigarette butts in his yard than students standing around smoking.

"When it fills up with butts, we take care of it," he said. "I have a feeling the littering is going to be more of an issue."

Vice President Bob Duringer, who will chair the Tobacco Task Force this year, said he had not heard any complaints from neighborhood residents on Monday. He also said that each complaint will be handled "on a case-by-case basis."

Taylor said he didn't anticipate any big problems with smokers, but acknowledged that the smoking ban is "a policy, not a law, so it's hard for us to enforce it."

Sounds like this is working great.No unintended consequences there.
I love how these places start a policy with no clear way to enforce it or implement it.
Or how they're going to handle complaints.
I doubt this feels like much of an improvement to the people who live near the campus.

A year on, smoking ban still flouted

ekathimerini.com | A year on, smoking ban still flouted:

Of the 27,260 complaints reporting offenses in bars and restaurants, nearly half (12,502) were prompted by patrons smoking on the premises. Another 8,692 complaints were about the existence of ashtrays on the tables while 5,414 callers called to report bar or restaurant owners for allowing smoking in their establishments.
Complaints were also made about the illegal segregation of cafes and restaurants into smoking and non-smoking areas.
KEEL reported receiving 366 calls regarding smoking in state hospitals and another 288 about teachers smoking at school.

How's that working out for you Greece?

Frederick resident: Let’s just ban everything in parks

Frederick resident: Let’s just ban everything in parks - Rosenwald, Md. - The Washington Post:

And: “I and many other people have seasonal allergies. Let’s ban flowers and grass from city parks. I also have asthma. Please, please ban perfume from city parks.”

She concludes: “Ban everything from city parks. We can all just drive by and admire the dirt.”

Do you agree with her?

Sadly I can see the appeal of banning everything we don't like seeing or looking at.
I work with the general public so I get the idea.
There are tons of things I'd love to ban,people who don't bathe and use deodorant are high on my personal list.
However I believe that if I don't like seeing or hearing or smelling something I have the ability to leave the area.
Maybe some people lack that ability?

This letter made me laugh pretty hard.

Statistics from 'anti-smokers'; should be challenged

Statistics from 'anti-smokers'; should be challenged; Public servants should submit to random drug tests, too (letters) | al.com:

Can anyone look at a person and factually declare that he/she died from secondhand smoke? Many base such claims on data from organizations such as the WHO, EPA, CDC and others. Investigating these studies objectively reveals numbers are often skewed to favor smoking bans.

Another claim is the quantity of toxins or chemicals in secondhand smoke. Currently, 4,000 is the magic number, although the Mobile County Health Department claims over 7,000 on its website. At one time this oft-quoted number was 3,000, then 4,000, then inflated to 5,000 and then to 7,000. Which is it? Nobody knows.

Put here because of common sense.
No rants,no sarcasm.

Council touts work at home smoking ban

Council touts work at home smoking ban - The Local:

The ban under consideration by Landskrona will mean that staff are not allowed to go outside onto the street during, for example, the group coffee breaks in the morning and afternoon which are common practice in many Swedish workplaces.

Causing further controversy is that the ban is set to cover those working in open spaces and even staff working from home.

Oh I imagine the work from home smoking ban is going to work amazingly well.
I shouldn't be amazed and yet somehow I always am.

S. 1403 "The Tobacco Prohibition Act of 2011"

S. 1403 "The Tobacco Prohibition Act of 2011":

 The bill also leaves a clause to go after any unnamed nicotine products that smokers may try to switch to, and tax that item to match the cost of cigarettes, eg. nicotine gum and other quit smoking aids. People who make a couple of hundreds a week will be extorted for hundreds of dollars a day as an increasing number of couples have one low wage income between the two of them. 

Go to popvox and tell the people you elected how you feel about this.