Showing posts with label smoking bans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smoking bans. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 01, 2018

As HUD's public housing smoking ban goes nationwide, Duggins and his merry elves pre-sign a ream of eviction forms.

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Taking into consideration the ongoing absence of ordinance enforcement in so many different areas, and recalling Team Gahan's hostile...
Saturday, July 30, 2016

Jamey Aebersold is wrong about street safety. Evidently facts are for non-smoking campaigns alone.

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13 Simple But Factual Ways Biking Is Better. Ask musician/favorite son Jamey Aebersold about smoking, and he will bombard you with rea...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Ed Clere instrumental as "Bill adds smoke to high-end cigar bars in Indiana."

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Both Tom Uhl ( Office Cigar Lounge  in Floyds Knobs) and Jeff Mouttet ( Riverside Cigar Shop and Match Lounge in Jeffersonville) have h...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

Time for spell check: NA eatery now smoke free.

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It's only news because I'd like to know which high school the logo designer attended.
Friday, February 07, 2014

Runyon on attitudes toward smoking.

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The uses to which his writing skills have been harnessed sometimes have been highly annoying, but nonetheless, Keith Runyon always could wri...
Saturday, June 02, 2012

Indiana’s Smoke Free Air Law goes into effect on July 1, and here's how it affects NABC.

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(Expanding upon a preceding post) You're recall that the state's "revolutionary" 2012 smoking law is riddled with exc...
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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Indiana’s Smoke Free Air Law goes into effect on July 1.

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You're recall that the state's revolutionary smoking law is riddled with exceptions, exclusions and vivid testaments to endemic poli...
Monday, March 12, 2012

Our new smoking ban that is not. Is there a purpose?

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The Indy Star has details of the exemption-riddled smoking "ban" now being hailed by Indiana legislators as supreme evidence of ...
Thursday, March 01, 2012

ONE THE AVENUES: Smoke rings and political hypocrisy, again.

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ON THE AVENUES: Smoke rings and political hypocrisy, again. A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. There are so many exemptions in the ...
Friday, February 04, 2011

Matt Nash on what the Indiana State Legislature is and is not doing.

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Matt doesn't mention the current round of education "reforms," but does manage to touch on the statewide smoking ban that isn...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Potpourri: "Everybody Knows that Smoking Ain't Allowed in School."

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The backlog keeps getting bigger, so here's a sampling of recent links and news items, some mine, some sent to me. --- Constitution, sch...
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Friday, January 21, 2011

Casinos can't do without them?

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File under hypocrisy.
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Friday, December 31, 2010

It's the end of an era and a new world order on Friday at the Pizzeria & Public House.

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(Edited from yesterday's posting at my PC blog) I will be at the NABC Pizzeria & Public House at lunchtime today (December 31, New Y...
Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Indiana House hypocrisy: No smoking = Workplace safety. Unless you work in a bar, club, casino ...

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... then, your health really isn't that important, after all. It's all about protecting workers, unless you have the misfortune of w...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Maybe it’s beating a dead horse ... but ...

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House Bill 1213, otherwise known as the statewide Indiana smoking ban, has been approved in a form that no longer pretends to make any cohe...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Crushed butt of New Albany smoking ban in LEO's Loserville 2008.

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There's a marvelous year-end wrap in today's edition of LEO , most of which is devoted to news and personalities in Louisville and K...
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008

England vetoes smoking ban, Tim Filler packs up lies in carpetbag and moves on.

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While we await a more complete report, I'll leave an open thread so that all the ban apologists can further adopt big tobacco tactics in...
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Sunday, August 31, 2008

Anger management? No, thanks. I’ve had all the placid acceptance I can stomach.

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I’ll begin this essay with a promise. This is my final posting on the topic. And, an observation. Thanks to New Albany’s Greatly Unnecessary...
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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Health fascism, healthism, and other purely amateur renderings from an unpaid homeboy.

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I’ve been asked to explain my previous references to “health fascism.” To the best of my recollection, I first encountered this term in the ...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Veto the smoking ordinance, yer Honor. You’ll survive squawking that primarily comes from afar.

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Here it is: The resident contrarian’s case in favor of mayoral intervention in the Greatly Unnecessary Smoking Debate of ’08. (After all, I ...
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