Hypocrisy Aimed at Cigar Smokers...

Causing people who frequent cigar stores to be unable to smoke that product in those stores is hypocritical, at best.

It is understandable that someone might be offended when they walk into a bar for a beer and are “accosted” by smoke.

I cannot imagine that anyone who walks into a cigar store was ever similarly taken unawares! We walk in knowing precisely what it is we’re doing. We stay there to smoke a cigar of our own free will!

Now, the co-sponsors of SB150 in Wisconsin believe they know better than we know ourselves what we should be permitted to do. Cigars, so far at least, are a legal product that states make a lot of money from by taxation. For those same states to then declare that this legal product/state money-maker cannot be consumed within the establishment that sold it, if that establishment chooses to permit such activity, is ludicrous.

As to the employees who work for the tobacconists, the majority are part of ownership or the owners’ families. Others are almost always customers of the same tobacconists who work part-time. Virtually all are also cigar smokers.

We don’t need protection from the state, nor do those who are employed by the tobacconists.

Further more, the state is encroaching on individual freedoms with this proposed action and that is just plain wrong.