The 115 St. Louis Bars Where You Can Smoke This Weekend

• You need a good pare of lungs for that - unlike - http://www.comicbookandmoviereviews.com/2011/09/greensmoke-naked-women-smoke-for-peace.html

• Like most of the antismoking sound bites, "the level playing field" *sounds* good until you take a minute or two to think about what it actually means.  The Antismokers claim that bars aren't hurt by smoking bans because even if some smokers go to them less, they'll be all filled up with the ravening thirsty hordes of nonsmokers who previously stayed at home.   Now if that was actually the truth, then the bars complying with the ban would be tickled pink at seeing this list since all those hordes would now come to their own banned bars and avoid these 115.  The LAST thing in the world that they'd want would be to see the exemptions removed. But of course it's not the truth, and the Antismokers know it.  You can read more about their lies and their language tricks in "The Lies Behind The Smoking Bans" that's completely free for reading, downloading, and printing if you like.  Just Google "V.Gen5h" and click on "The Health Arguments" there.  And, if you have any specific, substantive criticisms of anything in it, please feel free to share them here. Michael J. McFadden,  Author of "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains"

• Or just let each business owner set his own smoking or nonsmoking policy.

• Or just make the playing field equal for everyone and make the ban total for everyone.

• So, these bans are about health?  NOT!  It's about stealing the rights of owners for the preference of others.

• Something tells me you don't have the scientific or medical background to reach these conclusions. Maybe it's the totally unsupported "here we are alive and there are no deaths from it, not even close" remark.     Let's see your evidence. The fact that some people do stupid things and don't die from them is not scientific proof in any way.

• There ya go, 115 bars to stay the hell out of...

• Pundits have gone too far on smoking We’ve been told for years secondhand smoke is deadly dangerous but we are here alive and there are no deaths from it, not even close. It’s an exaggerated, created science all its own. It’s propaganda - fallacies created to have justifications for a new round of tobacco prohibition. I am for freedom, freedom for all people to have their own place in this world, including the smokers! Tobacco smoke maybe an irritant to some, but that’s about it. Its chemical makeup has been so exaggerated by tobacco control pundits, it’s insanity. Only 6 percent of tobacco smoke constitutes those 7,000 theorized and identified components of the smoke. Theorized is the word, since the claimed chemicals are themselves so small they can barely be detected. Nanograms, femtograms are the sizes of what can be detected so they theorize the rest. Four percent is carbon monoxide, while nearly 90 percent constitutes ordinary atmospheric air! These figures come from the surgeon general’s report in 1989. Oh the pundits may bring up benzene in tobacco smoke. The average cigarette produces roughly 300 micrograms of benzene (1986 report of the surgeon general. p.130) 0.3 micrograms - 300 nanograms. Benzene is normally found in fruits, fish, vegetables, nuts, dairy products, beverages and eggs. The National Cancer Institute estimates that an individual may safely ingest up to 250 micrograms in their food per day, every single day of the year. Thus, the “safe” exposure to benzene from one day of a normal diet is roughly equal to the exposure experienced by a nonsmoker sharing an airspace with smokers for over 750 hours. It’s a political movement and it was never about health.

• Of course lots of City bars and private clubs not on this list continue to allow smoking. And they should continue not to comply!  Alcohol prohibition got overturned because Americans refuse to comply. The same thing should happen to this mean, dumb law.

• Great list. Thanks Sarah, now I know who to support!

• Disgusting

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