[BrentCrude]

The socialist republic of Minnesota banned smoking in bars and all private businesses 6 months ago.So of course there were bound to be loopholes in the law and one was that theatre groups were able to use tobacco during scenes in plays.The democrats weren't going to tick off their own gay mafia that runs the theatre and arts world you know by not letting them use real cigarettes in plays.

So bars now by the 100's around Minnesota have set up plays in their bars with the smoking patrons being the actors and actresses playing themselves in roles that they can smoke in.The bar owners followed the letter of the law to a tee getting contracts written up.etc.

You should have seen the expressions on the faces of the fascist socialist democrats when this all went down.hehe!Mark my word,this will change in a heartbeat where they will amend the smoking ban to cover plays.

[swede96]

Ha! It is COLD in Minnesota in the winter! I would do anything I could to stay indoors too!

The whole "no smoking in bars" thing REALLY pisses me off. Non-smoking whiners. "We don't like smelling like smoke the next day." Really? What did you expect to come out of Rusty's Dive Bar smelling like? Petunias? Smoke or hick sweat? I'll smell like smoke, thanks.

[marke4]

Being from Mn and going to school in ND a smoking in bars state, it is safe to say now that the bars in MN that went smoke free have shown large profit increases since the smoking ban. I think the only people who have lost are the dry cleaners since the thousands of bar patrons don't have to get their clothes dry cleaned every time they go to the pub during happy hour. If you want to smoke go outside, or join a private club that allows smoking in their facilities.

[Tchocky]

It's amazing they took so long.

[BrentCrude]

Being from Mn and going to school in ND a smoking in bars state, it is safe to say now that the bars in MN that went smoke free have shown large profit increases since the smoking ban. I think the only people who have lost are the dry cleaners since the thousands of bar patrons don't have to get their clothes dry cleaned every time they go to the pub during happy hour. If you want to smoke go outside, or join a private club that allows smoking in their facilities.

The blue collar bars in rural areas,small towns and the boonies have been devastated by the smoking ban!!!!The upscale yuppie bars in the twin cities have seen an increase in revenue.How do you tell some that lost their livlihood and future earnings and investment that on average the bars are doing better after the ban when it's your bar that goes under???

Even stock broker types in yuppieville love their big fat cigars and that clientel for bars is gone!

Seinfeld may have had the soup Nazi but Minnesota has the everything Nazis.They are called liberal socialist democrats!

[swede96]

[RageWizard]

I hope that the banned smoking never comes to Penn. I don't smoke but would rather sit in the smoking section to get away from the kids that are always running around in the resturant like its a play ground.

[marke4]

The blue collar bars in rural areas,small towns and the boonies have been devastated by the smoking ban!!!!The upscale yuppie bars in the twin cities have seen an increase in revenue.How do you tell some that lost their livlihood and future earnings and investment that on average the bars are doing better after the ban when it's your bar that goes under???

Even stock broker types in yuppieville love their big fat cigars and that clientel for bars is gone!

Seinfeld may have had the soup Nazi but Minnesota has the everything Nazis.They are called liberal socialist democrats!

Ya right, have you ever been to those small MN rural towns. First off, they rarely enforce the law, and the ones that do don't lose any business, all people do in those towns is fish, shoot stuff, and drink. They have about 3 options when it comes to which bar to drink at and very few of them have been hurt. With a very small exceptions of boarder towns on the ND and SD boarder towns. But I don't feel sorry for them, they are some of the most crooked owners in the world who report about 60% of their sales and use the rest to buy new trucks and waste it on others vices.

[raydog]

few places around here have just built covered patios. they are making more money now than ever cus the extras space also allows for more bands (bigger and better) actually more people around the bars than downtown clubs these days

[BigBollocks]

I absolute hate cigarette smoke and think it's a trashy, trashy habit, so a ban would be fine for me. I wouldn't mind the idea of segregated smoking and non-smoking bars, as it would instantly eliminate those who I generally don't want to have relationships with anyways