This is really over the top. The 25 foot rule was never a good idea, and it's very selectively enforced much to our benefit. Now some uptight government folks, insecure in their authority and with too much time on their hands, want to make an example out of a few places who are harming no one. Screwed up.

I wonder if this is more competitor driven than government driven. That is, competitor's using the bureaucracy to get at their rivals.

Taxpayer attempts to recover some portion of the money that they yearly throw down the bottomless hole of military spending pose a grave threat to the security of certain extremely comfortable and well-off military contractors and their government counterparts, and as such should be considered sedition.

At least the pit bulls stopped smoking.

What? Can this be the end of the self-esteem movement? Teachers are actually telling Parents their idiot spawn are F-A-I-L-U-R-E-S!?

What next? Summer school? Repeating a grade? Dunce Caps? Where will it all end?

When smokers all start paying 25% more for their health care premiums then I'll care.

That's where they infringe on nonsmokers' rights the most -- I mean, who fo us CHOSE to pay more for health costs becuase other people systemactically choose to do something which ends in disease?

Our nation can't afford everything. We need national health care. It is sickening to think with our limited dollars nonsmokers will be deprived of some of those dollars because some other people smoke.

If you post a $250,000 bond against your lung cancer cost, then you can smoke outside. That would fair. Until then smokers are all externalizing their costs and the "freedom" or "freemarket" model doesn't work. It's a lie.

Or, we systematically deny treatment to smokers with lung cancer and let them painfully die in the gutter. And when they dop they should stay 25 feet awway from the rest of us, you betcha folks. That'd be the real free market in action.

On the other hand I do think it's pretty insane that there's people out there who make it a crusade to shut down a place they patronize(d). Putting people out of work and such. I mean, just don't go if you don't like it. There's other bars.

Or are you fucking idiots who hate smoking so much, wanting to hang out in a cigar lounge or a cigar shop so bad that there needs to be no smoking there as well.

You nanny motherfuckers are retarded.

You infringe upon private property rights of business owners and patrons to accept the use of a LEGAL product all so you can go to places that no one wants you at anyway.

Fuck all of you.

Ten feet has a rational basis. Twenty five feet is totally hysterical, and based entirely on ignorance. At least nobody put a dunking stool on the ballot; it would have passed.

25 feet from all doors is essentially impossible.