Virginia is for lovers; no longer loves smokers

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COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
Office of the Governor

Timothy M. Kaine FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Governor February 5, 2009


GOVERNOR KAINE, STATE LEGISLATORS ANNOUNCE GROUNDBREAKING AGREEMENT TO BAN SMOKING IN RESTAURANTS

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Comments

[bowling_otaku]

I wonder if this will include bowling alleys? Because I think that would be nice... :)

[aimirgin]

I wish it would! I love going bowling, but smokers cluster around me. I can't stand it, and neither can my asthma.

[free_spoons]

after spending countless hours in the smoking section of a Denny's to work on papers, WHY DID YOU WAIT SO FUCKING LONG VIRGINIA?!!?

[veidt]

I'm a non-smoker. In fact, I hate smoking altogether.

BUT.

This shit needs to stop. If a business owner wants to have smoking in their restaurants or bars, then fucking let them. But make sure you force them to have 1) A non-smoking area & 2) Some sort of high quality ventilation system that sucks the smoke out of the place.

It's a very simple compromise. You keep the smoke out, pleasing the non smokers and you keep a smoking section, pleasing the smokers. Win/win.

It seems like everyone has asthma these days.

[zgirl714]

Now, I understand about the smoking inside a restaurant since I can see, even as a filthy vile smoker who is coming to kill your children with secondhand smoke, how that would get irritating. I'm not a big fan of too much smoke whether its car exhaust or cigarettes around when I'm eating. I just don't get why you can't smoke in a bar, or at least have a choice whether your bar is smoking or non-smoking, because drinking and smoking go together like granola and yogurt

[___closetome]

Welcome to New York.