| # | Name | Comments |
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| 201 | Steve Kang | |
| 202 | Evelyn Stanislaw | |
| 203 | James S. M. Huston | |
| 204 | Gerard | Ban the Nanny State |
| 205 | Brian D Gardner | I am about fifty years old, and at this point, I leave my home only for work and necessary chores. I have no hobbies left that I engage in. My daughter is disabled. Our income is low, our finances are weak, my mother in law is entering dementia, and we are her caregivers. We pay our own taxes, provide our own insurance, and get no benefits or help from anyone. We pay our own way, and are slowly seeing our family, our home, and our complete living infrastructure slipping into an irretrievable mess. Every penny we can save goes into keeping these things going. A new furnace, a new roof, updated plumbing and wiring, etc... We are suffering. The ONLY pleasure I have left in life, is three or four times a week, smoking a premium cigar, with a cup of coffee or a bottle of beer. When winter comes, It would be very nice to be able to sit somewhere warm and do so, but I won't smoke in the house, and other than the raunchy bars, there is no public building that allows smoking. There is no quiet place to sit down with a cigar and a book except for my fourteen year old pickup truck. |
| 206 | Robert Hudspeth | |
| 207 | Harry O'Brien | |
| 208 | Tamela Sowers | |
| 209 | Anonymous | One of the major claims behind smoking bans is it will cut public health care costs...well what about the 5 times more dollar ammounts spent on public health care associated with obesity? How about we ban fat people? |
| 210 | Rodie Wright | I have questions to the validity of the Surgeon General's report. |
| 211 | Chris Stucchio | This is awesome. The second hand smoke debate has not been based on logic or facts for years. It's all about money and curbing a behavior some people don't like. I'm glad to know someone is trying to do something about it. |
| 212 | William T Raffaele | As a cigar industry employee and soon to small cigar business owner, I am strongly against the government control of cigar smoking and sales. Cigar production, consumption, and marketing of the products is my passion and livelyhood and I cannot afford finacially to have that taken away! |
| 213 | Anonymous | |
| 214 | Ryan Marshall | |
| 215 | Sandy Heilman | |
| 216 | Allan Mean | |
| 217 | Robert Whitten | i live in IL, and as of Jan 1st the no smoking law went into effect, i feel that the state or government has no right to tell any business how to run it, does the government and state really believe this is going to solve the problem, at least leave it up to the people that own the business how they want to run it, here is a list that the government needs to work on besides us smokers, STOP ILLEGAL ALIENS FROM COMING ACROSS OUR BORDERS, STOP THE ILLEGAL DRUGS THEY BRING WITH THEM THAT IS KILLING OUR CHILDREN, STOP GIVING ILLEGAL ALIENS FREE MEDICAL, FREE EVERYTHING, WHEN I ON MEDICARE CAN'T AFFORD MY MEDICINE, OR IT COSTING ME A FORTUNE IF I HAVE TO GO IN THE HOSPITAL[MIND YOU ILLEGAL ALIENS GET THIS FREE, CLEAN UP OUR OUTSIDE AIR QUALITY, THIS IS BEING COMING ON FOR QUITE AWHILE, OUR GOVERNMENT STICKING THEIR NOSE WHERE IT DOESN'T BELONG TAKING RIGHTS FROM ON GROUP OF PEOPLE , TO APPEASE ANOTHER GROUP, I THOUGHT THIS IS WHY WE BROKE AWAY FROM ENGLAND, TO MUCH GOVERNMENT TELLING THEIR POPULATION THE WAY TO LIVE THEIR LIVES |
| 218 | Glen Blanchard | Here here!! |
| 219 | David Kuneman | I have studied heart attack rates in states with smoking bans and in states without smoking bans and have found no difference. Therefore I have concluded that secondhand smoke does not cause immediate heart attacks.
The Library of Congress' Congerssional Research Service has found that secondhand smoke does not cause lung cancer. or heart disease.
Infact all studies which are truly independant of antismoking groups have found that secondhand smoke is harmless. |
| 220 | david & peggy gens | "land of the free" |
| 221 | torin silence | |
| 222 | Richard McRae | I'm with you! |
| 223 | Richard Maynard | |
| 224 | Barbara Gottstein | It's very imporaqnt that congress should look into the unscientific smoke bans and the lies of the surgeon general and anti-smoke lobbyists. They should have a neutral investigation n should have an open mind for pros ansd con of unconstitution smoke bans and SHS, |
| 225 | Shirley W | The constitution gives us certain rights that are not to be taken from us. When state or local law infringes on those rights, this becomes a national problem, and our federal government has a constitutional obligation to step in and restore or preserve those rights for us |
| 226 | Karen Betts | |
| 227 | Rebecca Goines | I am a non-smoker that is outraged at idea of what the American government has become. When has it become against the law for an American citizen to enjoy a past time that is perfectically legal??? CRAZY!!!! |
| 228 | James Eilbracht | not to mention that smoking bans of any sort violate the first and fourth amendments,it's time we stopped burying our heads in the sand and speak out against this insanity! |
| 229 | Jerome A Swierk | |
| 230 | Nick Bujak | |
| 231 | Ivey W. Plair III | |
| 232 | Robert E. Geyer, Jr. | |
| 233 | Zoran Basich | |
| 234 | Anonymous | |
| 235 | Anonymous | |
| 236 | Anonymous | It is very bad when business owners and customers are NOT allowed to think for themselves. We are becoming a giant NANNY country and it is NOT right. |
| 237 | Anonymous | When the non smokers are still getting Lung Cancer, I guess the smoking bans wasnt the answer. |
| 238 | Patricia | |
| 239 | Anonymous | If I wanted to live in a dictatorship built on greed and deceits, I would have moved there. Congress seems to be more interested in other countries than our own with the way the deceits have built and they never saw it (OR IGNORED IT). |
| 240 | HELEN L. BELL | I am an adult and a free American, not a child in a dictatorship. I want to make my own decisions whether right or wrong. THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO RIGHT TO TELL ME WHAT I CAN DO WITH MY LIFE |
| 241 | Michael Davis | we must stop the madness! |
| 242 | john stegenga | |
| 243 | Gwen Watson | I find the smoking ban to be an unfair practice to business owners. What happened to the choice of the people. One more step towards socialism. |
| 244 | Cathleen R. Chiarella | This is ridiculous. Campfires, Ice Cream, Barbecues, Perfume, you name it... they all can be dangerous.
These bans are infringing on our rights for something that is legally bought and sold in our country and world-wide.
Enough is enough! We thought we had a free country! Our properties are OUR PROPERTIES, not those of the Government.
Get rid of the bans, or consider this a Communist Country! |
| 245 | Joel Augenstein | |
| 246 | Rus Thompson | The ban in New York has killed the tavern and Restaurant business. People have had their life savings basically taken away from the government. |
| 247 | B.Pietruszka | I did a bit of research on the congressional reps from the State of Illinois. What was found was that almost half of the reps received campaign funds from the anti-smoking special interest groups, with the reps that wield the most power in the state receiving the highest amounts. Illinois is one of the most restrictive indoor smoking bans in the country. One would think the State of Ohio, and all the other indoor smoking ban states would mimic the State of Illinois campaign fund statistics and numbers. The U.S Congress can approach this two ways: if the individual states don't care about their own constituents, and how these very restrictive smoking bans cause a major loss of business, affecting the livelihood of small business folks and their employees, why should we, or the U.S. Congress can address this issue like the illegal steroid use congress is now pursuing, the Libby scandal, Iran-Contra, Watergate, etc. and uphold the amendments of the Constitution of the United States of America, AND ALL THAT IT STANDS FOR. This kind of effort should have started years ago when California started instituting their smoking bans, look where they are today, along with Illinois, Ohio, New York, and all the others, just in the last ten years. Heck in some of those towns one cannot walk down a public side-walk while smoking a cigarette or cigar because someone could walk past that smoker and inhale secondhand smoke, but exhaust from a car, truck, smoke stack, or a bus which one inhales everyday of our lives does not seem to enter into the political reality thought process. Freedom isn't Free, never has and never will be. This petition says it all, and it must keep rolling farther and faster to get where it needs to be. |
| 248 | Leslie Ragsdale | I am for non smoking where children are present. However a BAR?? Thats just too far! |
| 249 | Peter Kay | This law has awakened me to what politicians are. They are the only ones that count and we the people are their servants and protectors. We the people have nothing to say anymore and it isn't going to get any better. God help us all. |
| 250 | Michael J. McFadden | Smoking bans are bad laws based upon lies and as such they are not proper laws at all. They deserve no more respect than the collaborators and informants who make their enforcement possible. |