Charleston Bans Smoking
Legend has it that there was once an indication on all of the bridges leading into Charleston, SC, the stated “Welcome to Charleston. Unencumbered by Progress for the Past 100 Years.” Putting along “leading edge” and Charleston in the identical sentence is an oxymoron. Recently the Charleston City Council heard a rumor regarding something known as second smoke. Once a bit of analysis they were shocked to get that cities such as LA and New York had banned smoking from public places.
Now, being one in all America’s favorite vacation destinations, they couldn’t let those other common spots do one thing they weren’t doing. Especially them damn Yankees from New York City. The last time the City got this riled they launched a few cannonballs out into the bay at Ft. Sumter that started the Yank Civil War.
With a lot of hand wringing and gnashing of teeth by native bar and restaurant homeowners, Charleston Town Council passed a ban on all smoking in public places. The non-smokers in the Low Country are respiration a sigh of relief; the bar and restaurant folks are threatening a law suit. Apparently they haven’t noticed that it’s easier to seek out a place to park a dumpster then it is to search out a place to smoke these days. Courts from one end of the country to the opposite have upheld these bans.
Usually we tend to come back down on the aspect of the Bill of Rights and also the 1st Amendment’s Freedom of Assembly clause. If people want to assemble and smoke a legal and highly taxed product, what business is it of local government? If no one is being held against their can in these places, where is the problem? We have a tendency to would notice these laws easier to swallow if they gave restaurant the option of being smoking or non-smoking with signs clearly marked on the door. But the promoters of the nanny state are never willing to go along with this.
As non-smokers we have a tendency to’ve puzzled out what places to avoid because they’re smoked filled. Smoke billowing out to street whenever the front door is opened is sometimes the primary clue. Within the West Ashley suburb of Charleston, you learn pretty quickly that you’ll be able to lose sight of your server in the haze of the smoke at Manny’s and the food at the Map Space starts tasting sort of a nicotine patch after nine pm. If one of those places desires to become a non-public club for smokers then allow them to go at it. Make it illegal for anyone under 18 to enter. If the bar homeowners suppose they can make a lot of money than honoring the ban, so be it.
The larger concern is what can they aim next? McDonald’s french fries haven’t been the same since the quit cooking them in lard. Then “trans fats” were bad. Bear in mind “saccharin?” When winning the anti-smoking battle does anyone seriously suppose the “health Nazis” will disband and start leading a traditional, productive life? Don’t count on it.
They’ll pry my key lime pie from my cold dead fingers.
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