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Jun

26

Warning: This Post Contains Strong Language

PASmoking

Hey, remember that smoking ban everyone was all up in arms about for a while? Well, yeah, it looks like it’s not gonna matter at all! The Pennsylvania Senate yesterday pretty much decided the state is going to have a smoking ban, but there will be tons of exemptions. Oh, and it overrides all local laws, so Philadelphians will indeed be free to smoke in parts of casinos.

The bill’s exemptions are for restaurants where food makes up less than 25 percent of sales, cigar bars (probably the most sensible exemption), a quarter of casino floor areas and, of course, “charitable fund-raisers where cigars are sold.”

This was quite a reasonable debate, of course, with the head of the ACS in Pennsylvania saying legislators were murdering thousands of people while legislators decided to come out against the bill with strong words.

Sen. Jim Ferlo, D-Allegheny, called the exemptions “disgusting gobbledygook,” and Sen. Anthony Williams, D-Philadelphia, said the changes were like “a pig in lipstick” being billed as a beauty queen.

Yes, that’ll show ‘em.

Senate acts to curb Phila. smoking ban [Inquirer]
Weaker Pa. version would override city’s smoking law [Metro]
 
dmac | 3:57 PM | 4 Comments
Gobbledygook, Pennsylvania, Smoking Ban, Strong Language
 
  1. ALB Says: Jun 26 4:52 PM

    Larry Mendte looks good in a bikini, regardless of whether she’s wearing lipstick.

  2. murph Says: Jun 26 4:58 PM

    Alycia Lane Bikini Guy,

    I’m glad I got here before you did. Please, give this running joke - and us, the annoyed public - a rest. It’s not funny. It hasn’t been funny. It’s not going to be funny. You’re not funny.

    I cringe when I see the comments link lit up, because I know that somewhere, in your parent’s basement, you’re thinking “Do I go with ‘Alycia Lane is smoking in a binki picture, and that’s not banned!’ or ‘I’d kiss a pig in lipstick to see Alycia Lane in a bikini!’?”

    My advice is: please go with neither. You’re never going to see those pictures. The whole situation is an old story. Joking about them is annoying, sad, and lame.

    Let it go, man. Let it go. Think of something to write about each story that’s unique, interesting and funny and you may earn our respect. Or start your own blog, where you drop your own one-liners about news stories. Either way, just please, please stop.

    murph

  3. murph Says: Jun 26 5:00 PM

    Hah! That guy is fast. My statement still stands, man. You’re a sad individual. Best of luck.

  4. ALB Says: Jun 26 5:22 PM

    DMAC edited my post! This seems like more than just a violation of Will Do rules, but it could possibly be a lawsuit!

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