Smoking ordinance fails
Posted: June 7, 2011 at 11:25 p.m.
Updated: June 8, 2011 at 1:41 a.m.
A large crowd fills the council chambers during a meeting of the Fayetteville City Council Tuesday, June 7, 2011, during which the council failed to pass an amendment to the city's current smoking ordinance to remove the exemption made for bars.
Fayetteville residents will be able to continue to light up inside bars that allow smoking for the foreseeable future. Even though a majority of the City Council voted in favor of a proposal to expand Fayetteville’s smoking ordinance to include all bars in the city on Tuesday, the measure failed to garner six of eight votes needed for an expanded ordinance to go into effect early next year.
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This should be up to a public vote.
Posted by: Mom2Gar
June 8, 2011 at 8:30 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
why? These are private businesses. If you don't smoke, nor wish to be around smokers, don't go to the bars that allow smoking. Simple as that.
Posted by: birdlady79
June 8, 2011 at 9:39 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Birdlady79, I agree! WHAT ABOUT THE HEALTH ISSUES OF DRINKING? Maybe we should start alcohol prohibition again? I have never heard a smoker ask people to quit drinking or eating so they could smoke. Give me a break people! I am a non-smoker, but I believe in freedom of choice. If you don’t want to be in an unhealthy environment, here is a tip: Don’t go to the bar where people smoke, you know which ones they are! And as far as the lady that commented on television about how all those years she was forced to work in a smoke filled environment, you should have changed professions. This is America the last time I checked. You have the right not to read what you do not agree with, to turn the channel if you don’t like what you see or hear, to work where you have the skill set, and to NOT VISIT THE ESTABLISHMENTS THAT PROMOTE AN ENVIRONMENT YOU DO NOT LIKE. I don’t like being around people who drink, so guess where I don’t go????
As far as Fayetteville being communist, not yet, but if the people of Fayetteville or any other town in the USA keep allowing the rights of the people to be crushed, it will make it easier for the government to diminish every right we have all under the names of security and health.
Posted by: AreYouKiddingMe
June 10, 2011 at 8:32 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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