appleblonde
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so, let me get this straight...
any activity that YOU do is republican while anything that is against what you do is liberal?
yes, let me just say that i live in the very republican state of TX where they have raised the price of cigarettes to $5 a pack. Rick and the Stooges have signed it into law under the thought that you are doing something immoral and robbing poor insurance companies of all their money paying for your lung cancer and emphasyma treatments. Therefore, the purchase price of your cigarettes have been jacked up to pay your debt to society.
i personally don't smoke, so cigarettes can be $50 a pack. i think the only reason why people take up smoking these days is so they can run out to the cigarette break area and gossip and have instant friends. but in the end, i think that smoking bans in restaurants and venues are not a partisan issue. i think the divide simply lies between "smokers", "nonsmokers", and "people who don't give a fart either way."
oh my... takes me back to the first weekend Austin endured the smoking ban. though i enjoy not being in a smoke-filled bar, it is a bar and you should expect people to smoke there. i know that for a while some bars were suffering some financial loss, but i suppose they have rebounded.