If I wanted smoking bans, then I would move to France. What sets us apart from the rest of the world is not safety, its FREEDOM!!!! Without that, we are no different that the rest of the world that oppresses its people. Go ahead and drink, overeat, abort babies, but by all means, dont smoke?!? oh, unless you gamble you can smoke. Gee whiz, I am an adult that feels like I am hiding a cigarette from my teacher in the bathroom. I can fully understand having certain restrictions on things, this is logical. Cigarettes are more than just leisure activity, to some its how we cope with life. We no longer smoke in public places, restaurants,hospitals,etc, now lets move on.

stop the smoking ban.Unconstituional.

First of all I would like to thank the News Channel 7 for having this posted, and second thanks for allowing me to comment.

Before this ban was passed I would have said no, because I am from Pueblo and have seen the effects of the smoking ban. Although the bars are clean and free of smoke and prevent clothing smelling from smoke, the problems that persisted was the fact that people had to step outside. Sure in places such as California where tempuratures get as cold as 50 in the winter time, there will be no problem for people to step outside, yet what about Colorado where tempratures reach as low as -10?

I am not a smoker, and I still oppose the ban. the one passed in Pueblo as well as the one passed for Colorado. I feel that business owners should have their right to put their establishment the way they want to.

Another issue is the fact that some designated smoking places which are sealed off well, and have an exaust fan does not bother the non-smokers. So Why should a smoking ban be passed if a place is well ventalated, or appropriatly sealed off? do those need to be torn down after spending lots of money to have the place ventalated according to building code, and smoke fans need to be removed, now because of the fact that they are just "wasted space"?

Although some sources say that "more and more people enjoy smoke free places" what about those that want to just relax, and their way to relax is having their smoke? What the sources do not say is the fact that places that have had a smoking ban made peoplego out in the cold to freeze. One person in Pueblo had gotten mugged because of the ban, and also it made it hard for dectectives to capture those smokers of marijuana who actualy do step outside. Also the Litter became a big problem, and not to mention the fact that drinks laying around for those smokers may get tampered with, because the law states that alcoholic beverages can not be brought outside.

my overall opinion is that I think it is a violation of peoples rights, because even non-smokers have a choice, they can choose not to go to a place that is full of smoke, itis not good for business because Owners have their rights to run their establishment the way they want to, because I know of a landlord who could not smoke in his own house because his home is his office, and that violates his own rights. And finally if a ban like this being passed, mom and pop bars should be exempted as well, afterall if casinos as well as cigar shops and especially DIA's smoking termanal can have it because they are appropriatly ventalated, or sealed off, Why not the mom and pop bars that have appropriate ventalation have it too?

Peace, BC

While I'll readily admit that it's generally foolish to be pretending to be someone you're not...I must ask the rhetorical question of where the government's regulating of behavior will end.

It's not enough to have a law regulating alcohol consumption, drug consumption and now cigarette consumption. Now we might get fined or serve jail time if caught by Nazi law enforcers if we pretend to smoke.

And at long last, states will now make it illegal to have transfats in the marketplace.

Whatever happened to freedom of choice, accountability for one's own behavior and a small and accountable government?

I like a free America. Perhaps we might one day learn what we've lost.

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Longhouse Perpetually Making the Decision

You've railed against government intrusion into citizens exercising their right to make decisions for themselves.

The difference, of course, is that second hand smoke has been proven to be a cause of health problems (asthma, emphezcema, etc) in non smokers. After 2 years of gay marriage in Massachusetts, no straight marriages seem to have been negatively impacted.

I just think it will be interesting to see how many people's worries and moral indignancy about personal rights end at their end at the tip of their own noses.

If they had to pick one of those two to put in the constition though you and I both know it would be the right to breathe clean air. Even smokers b*tch about pollution and poor air quality!