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That is all.:woohoo1:

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AMEN. The calls were pouring in on KTLK this morning, someone actually suggested not going to any restaurants in protest. Yeah, that will really show 'em. :rollinglaugh:

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I am sure everyone working at any place in MN that had to deal with 2nd hand smoke is realy happy right now, 2nd hand smoke FTL.

~John

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W00t!

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Woo Hoo! Now if they could just inforce that rule where you can't smoke 2 ft from the door.

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Kind of a double edged sword, on one hand you are infringing on rights of smokers, and on the other you are infringing on rights on non-smokers who don't smoke because they are smart and don't want to increase their risk of cancer.

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Smokers don't have the right to harm other people. How are the rights of non-smokers being infringed on?

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I'm really glad about this. After being a smoker for as long as I was and hitting my 1 year smoke free mark today (cold turkey!), I'm converted to one of those guys who hates the smell, and equally hates even being behind a car in rush hour traffic that is smoking. That shit can get back into my car as well and it's nasty. Now I know how others must of felt.

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These threads (here and mnscc) are the first I've heard of this. So, I want to know, does this include my college campus or is this just for indoors stuff?

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they do need to put a ban on people smoking right outside of the doors as well. they should put it at least 10 feet away from the door.
Not like being so close to the door helps keep them warm. Move that shit away from the door so i don't have to inhale it as i walk in or have to squeze between them to get into a place.

ING has had a non smoking policy indoors for as long as i have been there and probably longer than that, pretty much any bigg office company had the no smoking indoors policy. its great, but then you get 20 people huddled around the entrance door with the cigarete butts just sitting right there stinking by the entrance where you have to walk by EVERY TIME! ..

It is a great ways for managers to see who is more productive than not, when you see a smoker going out there every 40 minutes to light one up and stay out there for 10 minutes each time.

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At my previous job the only place people could smoke was the little roped-off section on the 2nd level of the parking ramp.

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Isnt there a 25ft rule in place about smoking by the doors?

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Yay, now I won't smell like shit when I leave bars.

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x2.

Now if people only cared this much about other important things!

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I know a lot of companies have that policy in place, but its rarely enforced.

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My favorite company was Kelloggs, the cereal company. I used to work with them at their main Battle Creek, Michigan facility. They had a no-smoking on the PROPERTY rule, and that was back in 1999. It was funny watching people huddled up across the street a block away in the winter smoking. I bet productivity went up tremendously when they enacted that rule.

It's actually going to benefit some places more now. I've purposely avoided restaurants in Coon Rapids because it wasn't smoke-free up there compared to Brooklyn Park. Now our family will go out to eat up there more often.

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The doorways have always been a problem so at least this deals with the bigger side of the problem. It's a start. Bars will probably smell for quite some time unless a major cleaning takes place. Maybe now at least the ozone generators have a shot at keeping up though.

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It's about damn time, whew.

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AMEN! I always hated it when I'd wake up in the morning smelling like smoke.

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This is actually a good thing...I should really quit now...old habits are hard to break. Wonder if I can quit cold turkey?

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So thrilled. Now my asthmatic ass can actually go out to restaurants and music venues. Having a proper social life will be thrilling.

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You bet it does. I think the only places you can smoke is on your property or in your car and that's it. I wonder how all the art/music people are gonna react to this. All my art/music friends are pissed so far. It;s like that too in Laramie here @ Wyotech. But there is a distance ordinance with buildings though, which is good.

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Well, you can smoke on campus, just not in a building on campus.

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When I first started working at my current employer they allowed smoking in our shop which is about 3000 sq feet or more. The whole shop would be filled with smoke and generally there was about 8 people smoking at a time. Nothing got done hardly and people (even non-smokers) would sit around and bullshit. About a year after I started they banned smoking in the shop; I never seen so many people crying. There were 55 year old men running around like chickens with their heads cut off. It was funny. On another not I never knew so much work could get done.

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Is the casino non-smoking now?

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Ha ha, hell no. They do not have to comply with the state. I just can't wait for winter to see all the people outside of buisnesses freezing their asses off trying to get a few puffs.

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No!!

The law does not apply to Casinos as they are not technically in Minnesota. The tribes make their own rules as to where you can smoke.

I have even heard that some Casinos are going so far as to build a seperate building for non-smokers!

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Well we already have seperate rooms for non-smokers; they are a lot cleaner and the fan air exchange system here is pretty good. Its funny when the techs go through and clean bill acceptors and other parts; the rooms that do not have smoking are 10 times cleaner. Smoking is just nasty.

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The only thing though is that even in the non smoking rooms the bed spreads are still fucked up with cigarett burns!!

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I didn't mean hotel rooms, I meant the different rooms in the Casino. Our Casino as far as slot machines go is broken up into different rooms; all of which have a different theme.

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Now I get what you are saying. I guess I get the dumbass hat for the day!