From the Daily Herald
The debate was between medical health and economic health Wednesday as Batavia residents and business owners aired their views on the city’s proposed ban on smoking in public places.
Batavia is working with Geneva and St. Charles to craft identical ordinances that would prohibit smoking in all indoor public spaces, including restaurants, bars and bowling alleys, with an eye toward enacting the ban by May 1.
“I would lose my business,” Debbie Dinske, owner of the downtown Stoplite tavern, told Batavia aldermen during a committee hearing on the proposal....
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All right I could go on for days about smoking, how its bad for you and what now, but heres a better one. SMOKING HURTS MAINLY THOSE WHO SMOKE. WHILE WE HAVE CELEBRITIES GETTING AWAY WITH DRUNK DRIVING. NOW LETS MAKE SMOKING ILLEGAL WHY DONT WE. BUT YET THOSE WHO SMOKE REALLY ARE ONLY HARMING THEMSELVES THOSE WHO DRINK AT TIMES NOT ONLY HURT THEMSELVES BUT THERE COUNTLESS DEATHES TO INNOCENT PEOPLE FROM DRUNK DRIVING EVERY YEAR. NOW SECOND HAND SMOKE IS BULLCRAP THOSE WHO GET LUNG CANCER WITHOUT ANY HEREDITARY BACKGROUNDS DOCTORS TEND TO BLAME ON SECOND HAND CIGARETTE SMOKE BUT YET YOUNG INNOCENT PEOPLE DIE EVERY DAY FROM AT LEAST ONE DRUNK DRIVER SO WHATS WORSE DRUNK DRIVING OR SMOKING YOU TELL ME BECAUSE PEOPLE THAT DIE FROM DRUNK DRIVING IS AN INNOCENT AND UNSTOPPABLE WAY OF DIEING IT SEEMS TO ME THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO BAN SMOKING WHICH IS LESS HARMLESS THAN ALCOHOL. REMEMBER THE RICH PEOPLE WHO GET DUI's ARE DRIVING ABOUT A YEAR LATER AND WHAT THE HELL IS THE BIG DEAL WITH SMOKING BECAUSE ALCOHOL IS WORSE THAN TOBACCO BECAUSE IT SEEMS MORE DRUNK DRIVING MANSLAUGHTERS HAPPEN THAN SMOKE RELATED DEATHS!!!!!!!!! POINT PROVED DRINKING AND DRIVING IS WORSE THAN TOBACCO AND SO IS HERION AND METHAMPHETAMINES AND MARIJUANA LETS SOLVE THE REAL DRUG PROBLEMS BEFORE WE TACKLE AN ISSUE THAT ONLY AFFECTS THOSE WHO ACTUALLY INHALE CIGARETTE SMOKE COME ON THE HARDCORE ILLICT DRUGS DO MORE DAMAGES TO OUR COUNTRY MONEY WISE THAN TOBBACOO THINK ABOUT THE MONEY GOVERNMENT PUTS OUT EACH YEAR FOR THOSE REAL DRUG ADDICTS ON HERION AND CRACK, METHAMPHETAMINES IS PROBABLY MORE THAN MOST OTHER LEGAL DRUGS.............. LETS JUST THINK ABOUT THE REAL TRUE "DRUG PROBLEMS" IN THE WORLD FIRST BEFORE WE ATTACK A DRUG LIKE TOBACCO WHICH DOESNT AFFECT THE BLOOD OR URINE WE HAVE AND THE DRUGS THAT ACTUALLY SHOW UP ON A TEST!!!!!
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