| # | Name | Comments |
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| 551 | Melissa Bailey | |
| 552 | LEONARD MCKAIN | THIS NON-SMOKING LAW IS NOT DIFFERENT THAN THE SEAT BELT LAW OR THE CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTER LAW. IT IS SIMPLY OR COUNTRY MOVING MORE TOWARD DICTATORSHIP. I INTEND TO REFUSE TO FOLLOW ANY OF THESE LAWS INFRINGING UPON MY FREEDOM. IF THIS GOVERNMENT WANTS TO JAIL ME FOR MY ACTIONS, THEN , THEY CAN SUPPORT ME IN THIER FIND PUBLIC ACCOMIDATIONS WITH 3 MEALS A DAY AND FREE HEALTH CARE.
THE SOONER ADOLF DAILY AND HIS FRIEND ARE EXTERMINATED THE BETTER. |
| 553 | Jason | |
| 554 | Anonymous | Does it not occur to you bastards that we are ALL going to eventually die anyway??? |
| 555 | Chris Zurinski | I'd like to share a thought about the smoking ban, presented by comedian Auggie Smith.
"Banning smoking in a bar? Who is worried about their health in a bar? What's the complaint here? Excuse me, Mr. Bar Tender Man, I am trying to get drunk, so I can drive home, and have unprotected sex with this skank I just met in the bar, and this guy's blowing smoke in my face! Can you pass the fried cheese??" |
| 556 | Joe | Hey, heres something you commie bastards missed. They now say that microwave popcorn causes lung cancer. Why wasn't that banned?
Get a life, assholes! We are Americans, and we should be free to smoke where we please! |
| 557 | Pamela Watson | I think it is very descriminating against smokers to take our rights away to smoke. I am not saying that smoking is not bad for your health and I am not saying that it is. I just know that it is my right to smoke and I am tired of being treated like a criminal just because I do. It is the same way with businesses, their rights are being taken away to. They pay all the insurance, mortgage pyms and everything it takes to have a business, so they should get to decide if they want smoking in their place of business or not, it should not be the governments choice about it. But what really burns me is the fact that the government likes to keep raising taxes on cigerettes and grabbing in all the can from the smokers that pay cigerette tax, but they want to tell us where we can smoke. I think that any state that passes no smoking laws, should not even be allowed to sell cigerettes in that state, then you would see them change their attitudes about smoking when they couldn't collect the taxes off of them. IF they are so dangerous to everyones health, why are they still legal to purchase, they should be an illegal drug along with marijauna and the rest of the drugs deemed bad for your health. The government is the ones that made cigerettes additive and they are the ones that handed them out to the soldiers in their care packages in world war I, now they want to change their attitude about smoking, when actually they are the culprits that rule the tobocco farms and got poeple hooked on them, so it seems to me they are the criminals. |
| 558 | B. Browne | |
| 559 | Milos Stevanovic | I work as a bartender and door guy at a bar. Since the ban I have noticed a significant decrease in business. This coming at a time when I just received a gas bill for $400 dollars. I am having trouble paying for that as well as school because I am grossing close to $200 dollars less a week then I did before. That comes out to $800 dollars a month that I am out because of this rediculous law. I would like to personally thank all of the Illinois legislature for truly not listening to the people who elected them. You have once again shown us how worthy you are to be in that position, and re-affirmed our faith in our current political system. |
| 560 | CATHY FERRARA | |
| 561 | myron legg | this law is killing the small bar owners all across illinois |
| 562 | Heidi Herman | I'm not a smoker anymore but I believe in the business owner's RIGHT to choose whether smoking will be allowed or disallowed in their establishments, NOT the politicians! |
| 563 | Maureen Lee | |
| 564 | deon kruse | any establishment that you have to be 18 years of age or older to enter it should be the business owners choice |
| 565 | Bradley Hart | As I have said all along this is not about smoking but the ability of Gov't. to impose it's values by taking away freedoms that have been paid for by our fore fathers in blood. |
| 566 | Margaret Brcka | |
| 567 | Lauren Garrett | |
| 568 | Alisha Gutierrez | |
| 569 | Sylvia Orozco | |
| 570 | Bradley Hart | As I have said all along this is not about smoking but the ability of Gov't. to impose it's values by taking away freedoms that have been paid for by our fore fathers in blood. |
| 571 | Paul C. Adams | You have effectively accepted bribes from the nicotine replacement industry to put your name behind this unjust law which is a horrible abridgment of individual liberty and which seizes control of individual's private properties and dictates to them how they must run those businesses. The "16 cigarette" smoke screen that you misrepresented as fact is absolutely shameful.
I shall never again donate to the American Cancer Society. |
| 572 | theresa koehne | |
| 573 | Cheryl j Mitch | This smoking ban has caused me to lose about 60% of my income. I work in a bar, we don't serve food. I can't pay my bills. SO where are all the NON-SMOKERS that are suppose to patronizing the bars, Now? Most non smokers I have talkrd to diagree with the law. |
| 574 | Brandon Meyer | Telling a PRIVATE business what they can and cannot allow in their own business on their own PRIVATE property is against their constitutional right to own that land. If a consumer doesn't want to go to an establishment where there is smoking they have the choice to go somewhere else. If a business owner wants to decide who their clientel is that is their right. |
| 575 | jon cacciatore | I and appalled that our state government can continually take away our rights, and they have way overstepped their bounds of private property owner's rights on this one. |
| 576 | Caitlin | FACTS my anti-propaganda |
| 577 | katelly | If you dont like my cigarette smoke dont go to the bar. If you dont like gays would you go to a gay bar. Weell we smoke at bars so if you dont like smoke stay the fuck home and drink |
| 578 | Joel Alpert | |
| 579 | Margaret A. Bugyie Estrada | Why can't there be places for smokers to go where maybe a special license can be attained by the establishment owners, that way the non-smokers could have their rights and we smokers can have ours. What right do you have to tax our cigarettes so high and not allow smokers any rights what so ever. Give up the tax money you collect off each pack of cigarettes and then maybe you can call the shots. Also, why weren't Illinois smokers forewarned of the "Fire Safe Cigarettes"? By the taste (awful) it's almost as if you are trying to poison us ( a lot of people are getting headaches, Sore throats and chest infections. Not once were any smokers notified of the impending change to "FSC". |
| 580 | Brendan Walsh | |
| 581 | W.K. Gus Otto | I would like the names of those elected officials that support our position |
| 582 | Toula Anastos | Consideration of both smokers and non-smokers should be given. Let the business owners decide who they want to have as their clients. This way there will be a place for everyone. |
| 583 | Deborah DiSantis | |
| 584 | debra sylvester | |
| 585 | Jon Moeckel | |
| 586 | Joe Carlin | Whats next..? ban books..? |
| 587 | Joseph T. Czernik | Non-smokers have the right to NOT go into these establishments. This is a descision that needs to remain in the hands of the business owner on which group of people they choose to alienate. |
| 588 | Anonymous | |
| 589 | Roger L. Respondek | a government that controls its people is not a free society welcome to cuba |
| 590 | Jennifer Solomon | Banning smoking in places like bars, riverboat casinos, and SMOKING sections of restaraunts ensured that my already handicapped world (I have MS and smoking relieves some symptoms) would become even more handicapped, banning me to my home. |
| 591 | James C. Levins | |
| 592 | Marissa Frattini | |
| 593 | Isabella Riley | The so called scientific studies are absolutely slanted propoganda, a means to take away personal rights, outright lies, not to mention an avenue for pharmaceutical companies to make loads of cash off of stop smoking ridiculously expensive drugs. This doesn't include the additional taxes on cigarettes - more penalty for not complying with the program. Second hand smoke does not equate smoking. In our society everything is centered around money and continuining in public marketing campaigns designed to keep people blind. This is yet another form of religious fundamentalism, and somehow money makes it ok to take away the ideals this country was built on. |
| 594 | Cindy Mulder | |
| 595 | Anonymous | |
| 596 | Sheryl Lindee | This law is rediculous. Go back to government business and leave the smokers alone. Non smokers have the right to go into smoking establishments or not to go in smoking establishments. I do not object to them opening as many non smoking establishments as they desire to open.........if I want to smoke I'll stay out of them. What is the big issue here. |
| 597 | Eddie Sullenger | |
| 598 | Joel Alpert | |
| 599 | Toula Anastos | |
| 600 | Amber Fjeldheim (The Thirsty Turtle) Milford IL | I am a bar owner in a very small town in central IL and I am a non smoker, HOWEVER, I am a firm believer in FAVOR of smoking in a bar!!!! As a bar owner we should have the option of smoking or not. The smoking ban for bars is killing business! We opened only 3 months ago and we are feeling the crunch! Even though I have not gotten a warning from the state, my local law enforcement has said they will write us tickets! This is very unfair and frankly we all need to stand together to fight this! |