Barowners in Minnesota are exploiting a loophole in the state’s smoking ban. Hilarious:
At the Rock, a heavy-metal bar in Maplewood, owner Brian Bauman explained why his clientele were doing little more than sitting around, smoking and drinking to a soundtrack of deafening music.“They’re playing themselves before 1 October – you know, before there was a smoking ban,” he said, according to the Associated Press.
“We call the production, Before the Ban!”
That sounds like a blast. We had a best-of-all-worlds situation in Champaign for about nine months last year, between the time when the newly elected Champaign city council repealed their city smoking ban and when the state-wide ban took effect. About half the bars allowed customers to smoke indoors like civilized people and the other half were non-smoking bars. Everyone had the opportunity to be happy.
Even the humorless, over-the-top control freaks who say things like the following comment to that BBC article.
There will always be resistance to such a move [as a smoking ban], but there was also resistance to the abolition of slavery.
Harriet Tubman, this statist ain’t.