{"id":8195,"date":"2005-04-28T14:53:29","date_gmt":"2005-04-28T21:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/04\/28\/ill-settle-for-restaurants-sure.html"},"modified":"2005-04-28T14:53:29","modified_gmt":"2005-04-28T21:53:29","slug":"ill_settle_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/28\/ill_settle_for.html","title":{"rendered":"I’ll settle for restaurants, sure"},"content":{"rendered":"

While supporters are lamenting (angrily, in some cases) that the state senate has “gutted” a statewide smoking ban<\/a> to only <\/em>cover restaurants — excluding bowling alleys, bars, and bingo parlors — given that I visit very few of the latter and quite a few of the former, I’ll be pleased to see the bill pass. Assuming that the folks who will only settle (for the moment) for it applying everywhere don’t end up scuttling it.<\/p>\n

Frankly, I’ll confess that this is an area where my relatively libertarian views of governemental regulation fall by the wayside — and I’ll not pretend that the “protecting the workers” excuse is my motivator. I don’t like being in restaurants that allow smoking. I dislike the “smoking or non-” question when I walk in. Screw it. Forbid it in restaurants, and I’ll be a happy camper, philosophical consistency or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While supporters are lamenting (angrily, in some cases) that the state senate has “gutted” a statewide smoking ban to only cover restaurants — excluding bowling alleys, bars, and bingo parlors…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-politics-law","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8947,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/17\/twelve_years_la.html","url_meta":{"origin":8195,"position":0},"title":"Twelve years later …","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 17-Mar-06 2:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A year or two before I moved to Colorado, California bit the bullet and banned most indoor smoking, including in bars and restaurants. 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