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Posted by: On: 1/11/2009

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Banning fatty foods is actually an excellent idea. Have you seen the resident heifers of College Station lately? And their odor - Phew!!!!

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Posted by: What A. Crock On: 1/11/2009

Comment Title: Fat People- You're Next!
Next up after smoking- CS will outlaw fatty foods. Since they are bad for you, no longer may you eat fried foods in public. The grease and smell may OFFEND someone! Our leaders have NO COMMON SENSE or bal*s. They are puppets for a chosen few and carry out their desires as ordered. NONE of this is necessary with a little common RESPECT for others!

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Posted by: On: 1/10/2009

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Lord I hope it doesn't pass. I'd rather smell the cigarette oder than the natural College Station stench when a south wind blows into Bryan. Barf!!!

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Posted by: On: 1/10/2009

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College Station can find more effective measures to keep bryan thugs out.

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Posted by: On: 1/10/2009

Comment Title: Free Market Does Not Work?
I guess the free market does not work. If these business owners do not want smoking in their establishments, let them take care of that on their own. If they do not have the guts to make their own decisions on that matter, then let them suffer whatever consequences they might suffer. Please stop relying on the government to enforce decisions you do not have the courage to make for your own businesses. I smoke cigarettes but do not drink alcohol or frequent bars. So, I could just not have an opinion as it does not effect me. But, it is stupid. It should be the business owner's decision, not the governments. I do go to restaurants with friends. 99% of my friends do not smoke, and we sit in nonsmoking sections if that is optional. I do not smoke in nonsmokers' homes. I do not smoke in my home if it is offensive to nonsmoking guests. Courtesy cannot be governed. All of this nonsense is either about common courtesy, or restaurants and businesses not wanting to spend money on expensive ventilation systems MANDATED by the City Council in the past if smoking sections are available. Now the City Council wants to do more for businesses to allow them to avoid the responsibility of making their own decisions. Thanks a lot. Just what we need. Less responsibility and ownership of decisions in a society in which responsibility and ownership of decisions appear to be great problems at large. Please help me City Council, I do not have the guts to make a decision. Pass an ordinance so I do not have to decide whether or not to spend dollars required by the last ordinance you passed requiring me to make a decision about whether or not to spend dollars to create a "safe" smoking area. Those businesses that did comply and create areas like that and did spend those dollars are just out of luck. Typical government nonsense. If anything about any business offends me, I just do business elsewhere. Pretty simple. I do not need the government to help me. Thanks, but no thanks.

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Posted by: On: 1/9/2009

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Oops, my mistake, get yourself to the Jan. 22nd council meeting.

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Posted by: On: 1/9/2009

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Well Aggie Student, you are a little late with your reasons and you presented them to the wrong audience. A council meeting would have been great.

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Posted by: Aggie Student On: 1/9/2009

Comment Title: Ridiculous!
As a student myself, I really think that banning smoking from bars is a little outrageous. Restaraunts - fine. But bars? No! The differnce between College Station and Austin being able to ban smoking is the age limit. Not only do you have to be 21 to get into most bars in Austin but most of the bars do not charge a cover whereas in CS they do. I've been to Harry's before when I was underage and they were going to charge me again if I stepped outside because they didn't want minors going out to their cars to drink and then come back in. Well, if they now have to go outside to smoke since you only have to be 18 to smoke, who's to say they won't be going to their vehicles to drink and smoke before they are allowed back in? The hassle of watching people go in and out is just unnecessary. And furthermore, if smoking REALLY bothered people who didn't smoke or didn't like the smell, they would NOT be going out to bars because when you are in a bar setting there is way more smoking going on because there are people who only smoke when they are drinking. I can promise you that banning smoking is going to hurt some businesses around here. More people and students will be throwing parties instead of going out just so they can have their rights to smoke freely and you can bet that there will be more under-age drinking because of that. There's too many negative factors involved in banning smoking from bars. It's just not worth it to piss a bunch of people off which is what's going to happen.

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Posted by: On: 1/9/2009

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Soon we will be told where we can and cannot eat. I understand that some group of people want to go enjoy themselves when they go out and not worry about smoke. But, what about those that do smoke? You are forcing your ideas on others. Thought this was a Democratic Society? By the way, I am a non-smoker.

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Posted by: On: 1/9/2009

Comment Title: This is the wrong idea
This whole idea is wrong I can understand restaurants and workplaces but these are BARS people smoke in BARS, northgate is going to see a big drop in sales when this goes into effect because of people like me who will no longer frequent those places. People who don't smoke need to grow up and get something better to do with their time they knowingly and willingly go to bars where they know there will be people smoking and then complain about having to be exposed to it well no one forced you to come to the bar in the first place you made your choice. Its the same with cig taxes they want to raise them up and up to make people quit but us smokers are the ones paying for all the poor peoples health care with out cig taxes when we quit what are you going to tax to death next beer, fast food, candy where does it all end.

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Posted by: On: 1/9/2009

Comment Title: smoking laws
california going broke because of laws like this

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Posted by: On: 1/9/2009

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Now the Bryan City Council needs to do the same thing.

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Posted by: Loser Police On: 1/9/2009

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Good!

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