I Hate Peer Pressure
So a friend of mine who also has a blog, decided it would be a great idea if a bunch of us that have blogs all write about the same thing and post it at 9pm tonight. Like a fool, I went along.
The topic he picked was about bars and restaurants in Washington DC prohibiting smoking.
As a smoker, you would think I would be mad about this.
I could not care less.
In about 3 weeks I'll be moving to Las Vegas, NV. In Vegas, you can smoke everywhere. Even in non-smoking restaurants and hospital rooms that use oxygen. As far as I know, you can smoke while pumping gas. I've seen people do that! You can smoke any place you can find a cigarette and a light. Which is most places, because if you don't have one, you can ask the guy next to you and he'll give you three.
"But hang on a second!" you might be saying. " They can enact those laws in Nevada too, then you'd be in the same situation!"
Nope. The biggest tax payers and utility customers in Nevada are the casinos. They provide more government cheddar than most other groups and businesses combined. Every time a law has been brought up that doesn't benefit the casinos, it goes away really fast. Almost like John Titor came back in time and erased it from ever happening. The casinos like the smoke. Hell, they like anything that keeps people walking through their doors.
Some have opened non-smoking areas, and that's great. But believe me, it's not out of any altruistic vision towards the welfare of their patrons. It's because they found out a certain non-smoking percentage of the population would visit if there was a non-smoking area for them. In other words, it was yet another gimmick to go after customers that wouldn't otherwise go. Keep in mind, to get to the non-smoking area people will have to walk through many smoke filled corridors and rooms, but that's not the point.
As for Washington DC, hell, they enact all kinds of crazy laws there anyways. I'm more surprised the tobacco lobbyists haven't sponsored a law to make smoking mandatory in all restaurants and bars. I'll never go there, what do I care?
But on the off chance I do go there, you'll find me easily. I'll be the one standing outside the bar with my aforementioned friend blowing smoke into your hair and clothes as you walk in.
The topic he picked was about bars and restaurants in Washington DC prohibiting smoking.
As a smoker, you would think I would be mad about this.
I could not care less.
In about 3 weeks I'll be moving to Las Vegas, NV. In Vegas, you can smoke everywhere. Even in non-smoking restaurants and hospital rooms that use oxygen. As far as I know, you can smoke while pumping gas. I've seen people do that! You can smoke any place you can find a cigarette and a light. Which is most places, because if you don't have one, you can ask the guy next to you and he'll give you three.
"But hang on a second!" you might be saying. " They can enact those laws in Nevada too, then you'd be in the same situation!"
Nope. The biggest tax payers and utility customers in Nevada are the casinos. They provide more government cheddar than most other groups and businesses combined. Every time a law has been brought up that doesn't benefit the casinos, it goes away really fast. Almost like John Titor came back in time and erased it from ever happening. The casinos like the smoke. Hell, they like anything that keeps people walking through their doors.
Some have opened non-smoking areas, and that's great. But believe me, it's not out of any altruistic vision towards the welfare of their patrons. It's because they found out a certain non-smoking percentage of the population would visit if there was a non-smoking area for them. In other words, it was yet another gimmick to go after customers that wouldn't otherwise go. Keep in mind, to get to the non-smoking area people will have to walk through many smoke filled corridors and rooms, but that's not the point.
As for Washington DC, hell, they enact all kinds of crazy laws there anyways. I'm more surprised the tobacco lobbyists haven't sponsored a law to make smoking mandatory in all restaurants and bars. I'll never go there, what do I care?
But on the off chance I do go there, you'll find me easily. I'll be the one standing outside the bar with my aforementioned friend blowing smoke into your hair and clothes as you walk in.
posted by Unknown at 7:18 PM
7 Comments:
That's it.
I'm moving to Nevada.
Yeah.
East coast can blow me.
I've seen those non-smoking areas in the casinos.
My closet's bigger.
Now if we could only move Nevada to the NorthEast.
Than it would be heaven on earth.
Atlantic City has casinos, and that's more like hell on earth than heaven.
Now if we could only move Nevada to the NorthEast.
Yeah, whatever.
I think Nevada's bigger than all the Northeastern states combined! And more radioactive too!
So, you think it's a good thing that Nevada is run by the fatcats who own the casinos? And that, since they control the $$ supply, they can say "we don't give a fuck about people getting lung cancer--if you want our money, you keep your mouth shut, Nevada state government!"
As for the DC laws against smoking--as if banning smoking will make a difference with all of the air pollution there.
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