| # | Name | Email | Comments |
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| 1 | Bill Utz | uts7878@aol.com | As an attorney I cannot condone elected officials breaking the code of law for any reason. |
| 2 | Thomas Bruce | tommyrbruce@yahoo.com | |
| 3 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 4 | John Gray | teaparty@btinternet.com | Please vote down Text Amendment 2007-003. It is illegal! |
| 5 | Garnet Scheuer | garnetdawn@comcast.net | The BIGGEST error is to ignore our Constitution and Bill of Rights, whose purpose was to limit the power of government. |
| 6 | Soren Hojbjerg | dko8489@vip.cybercity.dk | |
| 7 | Audrey Silk | nycclash@nycclash.com | I see, so if the prohibitionists can't get their way by law they'll circumvent it any way they can to achieve it. In this case, the familiar low of the anti-smoking movement is to declare that PRIVATELY OWNED restaurants now BELONG to the county ("economic vitality of the city").
Those restaurants didn't open for the county's benefit, they opened for the owner's benefit. If the county wants non-smoking restaurants (which is ludicrous to say when there already are at least 100 to choose from) then open county-run restaurants and make your own rules.
If the anti-smokers are allowed to keep getting their way this way none of our foundational freedoms will be left standing. |
| 8 | Wendy Bewley | bewley7@msn.com | It is time for elected officials to remember who they are employed by. You represent ALL the constituents, not a select special interest group. You would do yourselves and the public a great disservice if you do not investigate deeper what the tobacco control activists are trying to convince you of. |
| 9 | Phillip E. Parker, Ph.D. | phil@math.wichita.edu | |
| 10 | Dave Pickrell | sfdsmoke@hal-pc.org | A government out of control with it's own power should not be tolerated. Who will find their heads on the chopping black next if nothing is done now? |
| 11 | Karyn Kimberling | vasmokers@aol.co | |
| 12 | Michael J. McFadden | Cantiloper@aol.com | The legislators are commiting Civil Disobedience, and just like ordinary citizens doing such, they should be held accountable. As trustees of the law however, their ultimate penalties should be far more severe: no fines: jail time. |
| 13 | Amy Bursell | amy@bursellresearch.com | |
| 14 | Carolyn L Hankison | bbsmom@netzero.net | |
| 15 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 16 | Michael Zehner | michael808a@hawaiiantel.net | These bans take choice away from people and hurt businesses. |
| 17 | Mary Ball | mball@pwshift.com | We spend between $100 and $400 in Restaurants in Old Town Alexandria each month.
In addition, we bring friends and relatives there and go shopping as well.
If smoking is not allowed. We will not go there to eat. We do not go anywhere and eat where we can not smoke. This is not just words.. We don't go into DC at all anymore to eat - ever - because of the ban.
We no longer go into DC to eat which turns out to be a good thing for Old Town ;-) However, this could end if smoking is not allowed. Particularly, if smoking is not allowed both inside and outside!!!
At the very least - if smoking is banned indoors, at least we'd be there in the summer and sit outside at our favorite restaurants.
Sure - we're just one couple but there are many others that may not take the time to fill in this petition.
How about requiring places to Post outside the restaurant if they are Smoking Or Non Smoking. That would help all of us. |
| 18 | Joseph W. Stuart | joseph.w.stuart@cox.net | |
| 19 | Jana West | westend2000@juno.com | I live in Arlington, but go out to eat and visit bars and lounges in Alexandria several times a month. This proposal is not only illegal, it is going to be very bad for small businesses. Let the business decide on their own. If customers want a non-smoking place, they will find one on their own.
Maybe you could come up with a law where business that allow smoking need to install an air curtain (3M makes them). An air curtain isn't that expensive, and when in place doesn't even let a particle of smoke (or most other airborne chemicals) get into the area separated by the invisible curtain. You can walk through and talk through the curtain, and blow smoke right at the person on the other side, and they won't smell or be touched by the smoke. Now that's the way to create a bill the supports the rights of EVERY citizen of the United States, and not just the few. Please read this article on second hand smoke and deaths, it will be inlightening if you read all the way through. There have been no deaths related to second hand smoke - and I dare you to name 3 people who have died. Here's the link to the article: http://www.davehitt.com/2004/name_three.html
Sincerely,
Jana West |
| 20 | Tish Webb | Okalpatty@aol.com | Leave us smokers alone, Drunk Drivers KILL Familys in one shot............. |
| 21 | Anonymous | Anonymous | I have lived in America all my life this is suppose to be a free country it is my business if I want to smoke & no one should be able to tell me what to do,so if we are a free country why can't I smoke where ever i want????? this new law is not right |
| 22 | Scott A. Rapp | srapp72@yahoo.com | |
| 23 | Kerri Zajicek | kerri976@yahoo.com | There are far worse things in this world than having a cigarette with your cocktail or just in the company of friends. Banning smoking is the epitome of the trampling of americans civil liberties and sense of freedom, especially due to the fact that Virginia is a state that produces tobacco. We are all tired of being told what to do and when to do it. Fighting for the freedoms of all Americans is something that should be done fervently. |
| 24 | Peter Witkowski | peterwloan@hotmail.com | |
| 25 | karin chenowith | kharoe@hotmail.com | i'm a virginian and i smoke and i vote. i also appreciate that smokers in this state still enjoy the right to smoke in those restaurants and bars which choose to cater to us. |