Eliminate smoking ban in restaurants, stores, taxis?

January 24, 2017

Rep. Robert Hull is sponsoring a bill that would eliminate the smoking ban in New Hampshire restaurants, grocery stores, and privately owned buses and taxis. An owner could still choose to ban smoking on the premises if he or she chose.

“It’s always been my pet peeve that we are in the Live Free and Die state and we are not allowed to light up in a restaurant,” Hull told New Hampshire Business Review.

He believes changing New Hampshire law would also increase tourism from smokers.

Bill opponents argue that the dangers of second-hand smoke are well-known. Patrons of these businesses, as well as employees, would be subject to cancer-causing fumes.

The NH Lodging and Restaurant Association also opposes the bill.

Do you think New Hampshire should eliminate the smoking ban in restaurants, grocery stores, and privately owned buses and taxis? Share your opinion in the comments.

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Chuck

January 25, 2017

It's always been my pet peeve that smokers believe they have a right to pollute the air that I/we breathe.

Brian

February 25, 2017

Having grown up in a home of two smokers and all of my adult extended family members, I am happy to breathe free of their toxins. The smoking haze would be so thick at my grandmothers you could barely see people's heads. You could write your name in the nicotine film on the car windows. You want to smoke that's your right and fine, but do it in your own damn space and stay out of mine. Feel free to die a horrible death from heart disease or lung cancer, just don't expect any sympathy from me or expect me to pay for it. Mr. Hull can stick his bill...well you can can guess.

Eliminate smoking ban in restaurants, stores, taxis?

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