Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Will California's bar smoking ban go up in smoke?

Selena

In this article, California smokers don't care about the law banning smoking, even though the bar owner might be able to get a temporary exemption, because those officials indicate that it is not easy to enforce the law. Moreover, other officials also point out that the law is too ambiguous. They think that only posting the "No smoking" signs to inform customers that smoking is prohibited is not really enforcing the law. By the way, there is an assemblyman who also attempted to repeal the smoking ban and claims that drinking and smoking freely without suffering criminal penalties will be ok by his maesure. Since California smokers neglected the law so that the measure will become "a bitter fight." In many areas such as small bar, health and tobacco lobbies. California was the first state in the nation to establish a smoking ban in bars; however it is history now because the California State Assembly has already passed a bill to challege the ban.

My survey about Nonsmoking- The American female student says that the reason she agrees with the smoking ban is that she won't stink when she goes home from the bar. And it is better to ban smoking in the bars because it can protect people who work in the bars for health reasons. She also says that she prefers to go to the smoking-banned bars to work there because she thinks that health is more important than money sometimes. Moreover, she indicats that staying in a bar where it is ok to let people smoke is no good because it is too smoky.

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