List of smoking bans in the United States

very intersting... looks like there is a serious need to start emailing the state officials to keep the state on the healthy side - Harold

Yeah hunt down the smokers....:( - Arawak

Odd color choices. White means all kinds of bans. My POV is that smoking should be outlawed in all public places - and that we should continue raising taxes for smokers. - Mike Reynolds

Only in America would you get the 'freedom' argument FOR smoking. I'm of the opinion that it should be made completely illegal. Sure it'll piss some smokers off now, but in the future, our kids won't know the difference, and it'll save everyone a lot of pain. - Will Higgins™

Wow...do people really see a reality here where the Gov't censures our current POTUS and citizens for committing an "illegal" and unconscionable act of smoking? "War on Drugs" on overdrive.... - Arawak

I'm fine with smoking but I want a bubble or force-field around the smoker. If you want the smoke that bad, you get ALL the smoke. Let it soak into your skin and breath it in second, third, fourth hand. *I* don't want your smoke and I don't want to hear you moan about not wanting to stink up your car, or clothes or home. - AJ Kohn

ditto what Harold said about Indiana. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

Governments should make all the necessary steps to reduce smoking in the population: higher taxes, ban cigarette promotion/advertising, increase smoke-free areas, etc. After all of those steps, if people want to smoke in their own homes or in certain places without subjecting others to second-hand smoke, then fine. I guess smoking is still human rights, even though it means killing themselves - Andre P. Siregar

I've never been to Amsterdam. I'm not against alcohol. I am against Marijuana. I like AJ's 'bubble' idea. Do you guys know any smokers who are dying? I do. They're dying from smoking, and they smoked for no good reason. Therefore they're dying for no reason, and I think that's unacceptable. - Will Higgins™

Cristo, but that's another discussion :-D - Andre P. Siregar

Cristo: so you're an anarchist? - Will Higgins™

Close enough ;) jk. Governments make decisions for all of us all the time. While outlawing smoking would be wildly unpopular, it would be more beneficial to society then most laws they pass. Buying GM? - Will Higgins™

Curious how outlawing smoking will play with freedom of religion, given that there are multiple religions that involve tobacco rituals... - FFing Enigma

First they came for the smokers, but I did not speak out because I was not a smoker... - Morton Fox

I don't get all this wanting to protect the smokers. Smoking is a choice. People shouldn't have to avoid public places because of excessive smoking. Let smokers do it in private. What if people wanted to say, take a crap in public? Would you get all hyper to protect that "right", too? (Bad example, maybe. It's late here.) - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

Is that a response to me, Christopher? Someone else's sedentary life has little impact on me except for the possible eyesore created by their oversized backside. And maybe increased health insurance costs or something. Public smoke definitely has an impact on me. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

mmhm. accidental Enter hit. anyway. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

Cristo, would you get on board if the government tried to protect us against something that kills >400,000 people annually? That's the number tobacco kills every year in the US alone. And the government is not forbidding people to smoke -- people can still smoke in certain places. Governments put up all kinds of rules. In Singapore you're not allowed to import and sell chewing gums. Following rules is just part of being a citizen/resident. - Andre P. Siregar

The mythical govt of said reality knows best... After all they are 'protecting' us from those vicious smokers...what's next in store? I can't begin to imagine. - Arawak

Andre, by that argument the fed is well within reason to outlaw fast food and other nutritionally void food, since it contributes to obesity which is related to more deaths each year than smoking. - FFing Enigma

Tina, there's too much debate on food to make it a law. Low carb vs. low fat, etc. The scientists/experts are not in agreement as to what food is "healthy" and "unhealthy". Also, obesity may not be 100% caused by food. Tobacco is different. Nobody says cigarettes are not hazardous to health. - Andre P. Siregar

Um, strange because smoking is banned in public places in Colorado with a few exceptions. Not listed that way. - Eric - Final Countdown

Oops, white is full ban, nevermind. - Eric - Final Countdown

Too much debate? LMAO. - Arawak

Businesses with less than 5 employees, smoking area in the airport, and I think the casinos at one point but that was reversed I believe. Would have to check. Edit: also forgot cigar bars. - Eric - Final Countdown

Christopher, I don't have the estimate, but I'm sure it's searchable. I'm not an expert, I'm just offering my opinions here in Friendfeed - Andre P. Siregar

this thread is full of epic FAIL......I am borderline anarchist/libertarian. Government do more harm than good for all. I would have just left this thing along...but some of the views expressed in this thread are completely disgusting. - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Christopher: you are wrong. What about MY freedom to be without smoke? That is the greater freedom. I am far more free today than 20 years ago. - Robert Scoble

so Robert, you feel it's ok to repress others' freedoms because you want to be more free? - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Christopher: we now know how restricting your world is. In my white world I am so much more free. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Ever heard of the non-smoking section? You've had the right not to be around smoke for like 40 years dude. What about a business owners right to choose whether people are allowed to smoke in their establishments? Don't get me wrong, I don't totally hate the smoking ban here in Minneapolis (now statewide), because it gets me off the barstool for a bit... But the principal of the matter still bothers me. - LarchOye

@Robert...Wrong? If I could only live in your bizzarro reality... - Arawak

Robert....c'mon! that's.......oh dear god...I need to go outside and smoke one to calm down before i say something stupid - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

LarchOye: anyone who believes in non-smoking sections also believes in non-peeing parts of pools. - Robert Scoble

Cristo: I was, indeed, refering to the chart above. I live in one of the white states. - Robert Scoble

Mike: smokers take away my freedom to clean air. It's amazing how lame that argument is anymore. Even Europe is starting to grow up about this issue. - Robert Scoble

Nice, a loaded analogy. Am I supposed to be impressed? Edit: Exactly...Bi-Coastal North America and Western Europe are the benchmark's of society... - Arawak

I agree about what you are saying about non-smoking sections, Robert. BUT....why is it up to the government to decide how businesses and people act? Shouldn't it be up to a non smoker to not patron a place that allows smoking, that business can then decide if they would rather ban smoking inside to bring more non-smoking customers in. That is freedom, not restricting one group of people to make your world more free! - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

People today are much more conscious of their 'freedoms'. I don't think making smoking illegal would lead to making other things illegal. The main difference between smokers and every other persecuted minority in history is that there's no reason to smoke, and it's something nobody should be doing anyways. - Will Higgins™

Mike: because this is MY freedom you are talking about and when it comes to people's freedoms to take other people's freedoms away the government usually has to get involved. - Robert Scoble

Will, ok so on that token, there's no reason to drink alcohol or smoke weed, or watch pron on the net, let's make that all illegal....we'll just all go around and act the same and do the same things just so we don't do anything that people think is stupid - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Mike: why does the government have to get involved when it comes to murder? To drunk driving? To theft? To property rights? Hint: many people are boors and the only way they'll consider other people's freedoms over their own is if government is involved. - Robert Scoble

Christopher: wrong. Wrong. Wrong. When it comes to my freedom no business should be able to choose. If that were true business could trample all sorts of my freedoms. - Robert Scoble

Christopher: in your world business would be able to decide whether to only serve men, or only serve white people, or to not serve handicapped people, or could decide to place me into slavery, if they wanted to (like businesses do all over the world, by the way, to their customers). - Robert Scoble

Robert, without the government, you'd have other free market means of dealing with these people. It's a known fact that prohibition leads to more black market activity and more crime in ANY country. The whole problem we are dealing with right now is prohibition of drugs that is creating a huge crime problem because people can't freely trade or at least engage in free market activities. If everyone had access to things without the force of government. - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Cristo: I'm cool with there being one place in the world to smoke. Las Vegas and Amsterdam are the two obvious choices. But there's a strong argument that the employees there are being harmed and that even there that smoking shouldn't be allowed. - Robert Scoble

Mike: the free market argument sucks. I've seen what happens there. The rich beat up the poor. The ones with guns decide what the others will do. The bullies make the geeks do their bidding. I'm glad I don't live in such a world. - Robert Scoble

In such a world Madoff rules the world. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I hate to tell you, that's happening now! - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Mike: exactly and I don't like it when that world happens. I like to live in a world where the government protects my freedom. - Robert Scoble

What IS it about the south? - Nick in Manila

Cristo: right. I would ban smoking in all public places. You should have places to buy tobacco or marijuana and smoke them in your own home. - Robert Scoble

Robert, our government "in the fight for freedom" has set up a constitutional-free zone within 100-mile radius of our border. The stories coming from these police check points that get setup there are horrifying. All in the name of freedom. Glad you enjoy your freedom so much! - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Cristo: there are lots of jobs that we've decided to do away with. - Robert Scoble

Christopher: we have lots of laws against child abuse. I guess you think that people should be able to abuse their children in their own homes, right? - Robert Scoble

Cristo: if you live in an apartment where the air is shared with other people, you shouldn't be able to smoke. Absolutely that is a great law. - Robert Scoble

Christopher: anyone who tries to take away my freedom to clean air is sinister. Glad to see that societies around the world are starting to understand that. - Robert Scoble

Cristo: I've been in shooting ranges. It's against the law to shoot people EVEN inside a shooting range. - Robert Scoble

Cristo: buying weed is quite different from smoking it. You CAN enjoy weed without smoking it. - Robert Scoble

For coffee? - Micah

Christopher: so you think that child abuse is acceptable, right? As long as it's practiced within the walls of one's own home? - Robert Scoble

Christopher: then WTF are you rambling on about? - Robert Scoble

Now I understand why they call Scoble the social media guy... - Arawak

Then the marketing is all wrong. But yes, whatever you call it, people figure out how to find what they want. - Micah

Cristo: well, it's in California so we can't smoke those in public places. - Robert Scoble

Cristo: you can earn a ticket, they don't arrest people for that. Business owners will kick you out, though, because their licenses can be yanked if they allow smoking indoors. - Robert Scoble

Christopher: in an ideal world, yes, but in the real world the cops have bigger things to worry about. Here in California we have parents killing kids by leaving them inside cars during the day: http://news.google.com/news... - Robert Scoble

Christopher: it's shown that parents who smoke around kids cause harm to those kids. It's the role of a government to speak up for minorities or people who can't speak up for themselves. Cristo: I'm not using them for an argument, I'm using them as a demonstration that there's lots of stupid parents out there who bring harm to their kids and, yes, the government should get involved in an ideal world. - Robert Scoble

The argument that you should be able to abuse your kids as long as it's inside the walls of your house is a really stupid one. - Robert Scoble

Cristo: technology costs money, so you just taxed EVERYONE, including people who don't have kids. Hey, are you a liberal? :-) - Robert Scoble

Robert, so glad you condone the violence of government to rip apart families' lives so you can be more free. Nice. I'd prefer that government stay out of my damned life and those around me and let us live the way we want to live and if people have a problem with it they can confront US about the issue. - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Christopher: yes I do. It's akin to feeding your kids just a little bit of poison every evening. - Robert Scoble

Mike: got it. So you feel that parents should be free to abuse their kids and should be able to keep doing that, no matter what the consequences. Good one. - Robert Scoble

Cristo: I actually am for putting those alarms in cars too, but I'm a liberal and feel it's OK to force everyone to pay a tax to protect innocents from the idiocy of others. - Robert Scoble

Christopher: again, WTF are you arguing about then? If you smoke outside where you just harm yourself and not your kids then we have nothing to argue about. - Robert Scoble

"but I'm a liberal and feel it's OK to force everyone to pay a tax to protect innocents from the idiocy of others." ......*sigh*.....I'm done...you win - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Christopher: Approximately 1500 kids are killed each year by fires in the home that were caused by cigarettes. Why don't we outlaw that? - Robert Scoble

Mike: you pay taxes all the time for that kind of stuff. You ever see a barrier on a roadway? What do you think that is? It's a technology to protect me from idiocy. And it's paid for via a tax. - Robert Scoble

Christopher: name one business I wouldn't frequent. - Robert Scoble

Christopher: that kind of argument used to come up about bars. I go into bars regularly. - Robert Scoble

In California bars actually became more popular after the smoking bans began. - Robert Scoble

Cristo: not regularly. But yes, I plan to do that. - Robert Scoble

Christopher: in California every business is smoke free and fully compliant. It's wonderful, because my freedom has greatly increased. They used to allow smoking on planes. - Robert Scoble

So Robert, you are fine with people going to a bar, getting drunk, getting into a small tank, and driving home? Afterall, that's what bars are basically for. - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Cristo: exactly. But in that case all you're killing is yourself. - Robert Scoble

Mike: huh? Most people I know when they go to bars have other ways to get home than driving. Drunk driving is illegal in California. - Robert Scoble

Cristo: what lengths are you going to go to to try to make a stupid argument? - Robert Scoble

Whatever side of the debate one is on, what used to pass (25+ years ago) as a non-smoking section (restaurant, plane) was a joke. And of course it was, the expense of truly creating compartments with separate HVAC is too expensive for most businesses to gamble given a market-only driving force. - Micah

Cristo: I just want to know, so I can gauge how much time I'm gonna spend on this one. - Robert Scoble

Micah: exactly. I still travel all the time and visit "non smoking sections." THey are 100% a total joke. - Robert Scoble

Robert.....I'm....I'm at a loss for words. Your ignorance about reality is astonishing. You think a majority of people who go to a bar actually have planned rides home? Stunning...just....*sigh* - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Mike: sigh. No, but we have laws against doing that. And quite severe ones at that. Far more severe than a $50 ticket for smoking in California. - Robert Scoble

Cristo: what are you smoking? :-) - Robert Scoble

Cristo: ahh, I have to do too much to ship Building43 so no wine for me until Thursday. - Robert Scoble

Cristo: goodnight! Don't stay in there too long. Makes your skin all wrinkly. - Robert Scoble

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