By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
It took the Unified Government too long to pass a too-weak smoking ban for Kansas City, Kan.
On Thursday the commissioners made a sad and callous decision.
They voted to give KCK businesses up to three years to continue allowing smokers to puff away in public places -- but only if the businesses paid a $250-a-year license fee.
Call it a license to continue harming people with second-hand smoke, with the revenues going to government.
This kind of irresponsible three-year exemption isn't contained in any other city law in the area.
Even Kansas City, which also took too long to approve a smoke-free law, finally earlier this year took a hard line on smoking in public places.
The city's new smoke-free law is a head-shaking disappointment even at a time when KCK is struggling to maintain the momentum created by its economic revival.
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Good news on smoke free law.
Good news on smoke free law. Smoking is main caused of hiv. This report was issued last time from hiv test london institute. And I want this smoking out from all over the world.
Absolutely wrong, grunt. A
Absolutely wrong, grunt. A business owner has no inalienable "property right" to maintain unsafe working conditions.
A smoking ban on workplaces is a common sense workplace safety law that protects the rights of employees (and others) who would otherwise be exposed to environmental tobacco smoke, a known and avoidable health hazard.
Interface..... How do you
Interface.....
How do you balance PROPERTY rights and PERSON responsibility to the anti-smoke police laws?
A person OWNING a business should be allowed to run that business how s/he sees fit. Customers will make the decision if they want to frequent the establishment, and employees will make the decision if the wages are worth the environment in which they work. It's called FREEDOM of choice and is what America is all about.
I will frequent KCK establishments, not because I smoke because I do not, but because they have the FREEDOM to use their property how they see fit.
Nanny govt., run in this area by our old friend libs, will cause many businesses in KC to fold. Good work!
It's a start. Secondhand
It's a start. Secondhand smoke is a known health hazard and shouldn't be allowed in workplaces, whether they be offices or bars.
The last page of the
The last page of the textbook the "tobacco control advocates" use instructs them to return every year until all exemptions are gone if allowing exemptions is the only way to get any bans passed. Allowing them to attend local meetings is the biggest mistake any town can make. Once they find gullible lawmakers, they will always be returning. Here's the book.
http://www.no-smoke.org/pdf/CIA_Fundamentals.pdf
Yael, I agree that it took
Yael, I agree that it took KCK way too long to pass an indoor smoking ban, but is the three year adjustment period really any less of a cow-tow to the powers that be than the KCMO exeption for the casino gaming floors.
Come on, both cities stumbled and landed with their faces in a butt-crack.