Some of the groups wont be happy until it is illegal to smoke. The war on smoking will work just as well as the war on drugs.
]]>If you live in an apartment, retirement community, or row-home you may not be able to do that in the near future either Ted.
– MJM
]]>Not just the government, but the front organizations paid from the $500 million/year MSA “smokers’ tax” funds and the officials running those organizations. If the government proved immune, then those organizations and people could be sued independently.
– MJM
]]>You mean suing the govt for destructive laws. Good idea, but dont bet more than a few cents on it.
]]>Do they allow you the Free Choice of casino gambling online? I dont worry about any racetrack smoking policies when I bet horses online.
]]>They were lying about that just as they lie about almost everything else in getting their bans in place. Harrah’s should take them to court and sue them for damages based on the amount of losses as opposed to what neutral economists examining nearby casinos without bans would project if the ban hadn’t been forced on them through the lies.
Taking it directly out of the pockets of the organizations AND THE PEOPLE responsible for the losses might prevent a repeat of the situation and perhaps open the way for reparations for similar losses elsewhere (E.G. Illinois’ casino losses of 22% in the year after their ban while the casinos in the three surrounding states **ALL** showed **INCREASES** in that same year!)
Antismokers should be forced to put their money where their mouths are as they roam around destroying the lives and livelihoods of honest people!
– MJM
]]>Really Clay? Want to tell us what you base that opinion on? For the record, nope, not only aren’t we the same person, we’ve never even met!
]]>A few years ago when Illinois banned smoking in its casinos their revenue plunged by 22% while the three surrounding states with no bans all saw their casino takes actually INCREASE.
Antismoking researchers and organizations lie about the effects of smoking bans and *also* lie about there being any sort of actually significant threat from ordinary levels of smoking in decently ventilated establishments. All they care about is the Endgame: eliminating smokers: any lies or wrongs or damage along the way is just treated as incidental since “The End Justifies The Means.”
See https://bit.ly/SmokingBanLies for a more detailed examination of the most popular lies that they push in getting these bans and then think about the amount of damage they’ve caused in various ways.
– MJM
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