Ft. Worth Texas has gone Non-Smoking!!!

We have been smoke free for about year now. The only places where you are allowed to smoke indoors are bars, taverns, or the like. At one point - not sure if this passed - there was a law up that would make it illegal to smoke with children in the car. If you complain will it do any good - I highly doubt it. I can tell you that smoke in restaurants never really bothered me, but the food taste oh so much better with the improved air quality.

Here in Canada where I live they have banned smoking in all public places. It has caused lots of businesses to go under. Now they are talking of not allowing people to smoke in their cars when a kid is in the car. I am a non smoker but think they have taken it too far, no longer do smokers seem to have any rights. I am mostly against governments telling us how to run our lives and businesses. You never know what may help, I would sign your petition if I was there. Good luck.

We are used to all public buildings being non smoking here in Nova Scotia and it isn't a big deal here. When I smoked it was getting to the point I hid the fact from everyone because of how low the opinion of it was. Even children were not allowed at my house because I smoked, yet I smoked OUTSIDE!

I live in Florida, and they have banned smoking in all restaurants and all bars that serve any type of food. Even at theme parks around here you can only smoke in designated area's. Non smokers are trying to confine us to our house to smoke and then they'll try to take that away. Not saying that smoking is great for me but I have the habit, I mean why don't we make an all smoking restaurant and tell non smokers that they can't eat there, then that would be discrimination.

Again I completely agree with what you are saying I mean what has this country came too when you can't smoke where you want to(I mean if someone has health issues and it could put their life in danger thats one thing)but seriously making restaurants non-smoking isn't that going over board? I mean aren't there soldiers that are fighting and dying to make this country free? I thought the whole point of that was that people could do whatever they want whereever they want(as long as it wasn't against the law)

We cant smoke in tennessee onless it is a 21 and over club.I like to know who gave our gov the right to tell us how to live.we can send our kids out to war at 18 to get killed but we cant live the way we like.this is so wrong.

I don't think it will do a bit of good. It is happening everywhere. We passed a law here in OH, which they said would exclude bars, and after it went through, we aren't allowed to smoke there either. It was not a clear law and after it went through, they informed everyone that bars were included and that if you were a truck driver, you could not even smoke in your truck, as it was a business, and if you ran a business out of your home, you could not smoke there either. I don't know how they think they can enforce all this, but that is what the law says now. I think if they want to get that technical, they might as well make it illegal, and I am a smoker.