As the board approaches the inevitable end based mostly on a single poster ruining the experience for everyone

Government needs to do more of this. Individuals rarely make the best decisions for themselves when left to their own devices.

It was a good move because going to the bowling alley used to always make your clothes smell like smoke. Unfortunately, there are smokers who violate the distance from the door where they are supposed to be smoking. The worst though I would say is idiots who smoke at the gas station.

As the board approaches the inevitable end based mostly on a single poster ruining the experience for everyone, I thought it would be a cool thing to play some of the classics that bigfan likely deleted because, well, the board ran out of thread space?

Anyways, remember the huge uproar about banning smoking in restaurants and bars. Bars and restaurants would cease to exist. Everyone would drive to Indiana to drink. Personal liberty would cease to exist. The Founding Fathers would have literally put us on their knee and spanked every single American citizen.

Instead, pretty much everyone agrees it was the right thing to do and no one even pushes for things to be different even if they smoke.

So, thanks government. You did something right!

It's pretty clear the market would have addressed the problem without government interference, especially for restaurants.

I thought it would be a bigger inconvenience than it actually has been.

Just like reusable grocery bags.

As the board approaches the inevitable end based mostly on a single poster ruining the experience for everyone

It did hasten the demise of a lot of old man bars/taverns.

Government needs to do more of this. Individuals rarely make the best decisions for themselves when left to their own devices.

Don't be so hard on WFR.

Was that no smoking or DUI arrests and dram shop lawsuits being enforced?

Just like reusable grocery bags.

I'm talking blue collar, neighborhood, walking (or stumbling) distance shot-and-beer places.

I thought Daley wanted all those corner, side street taverns to go away. Makes it easier to catch drunk drivers when you make them drive out to Cooper's Hawk?

The Driving to Wisconsin thread was great

I like how he claimed that he got to Lake Geneva from Wrigleyville in less than an hour on a Friday afternoon MANY times.

that's impossible. it takes an hour just to get to the kennedy