Rantings Diversified

Well they did it.  Both the house and senate passed the smoking ban.  It could have been much worse.    The ban on smoking disallows smoking in any public place such as an office, a store or a restaurant.  The exceptions are; taverns where 20% or less of it’s sales are from food, private clubs, cigar bars and tobbaconists.  Of course they left in the exemption for Philadelphia.  Commandant Rendell wouldn’t have it any other way.  So once again we have two states here, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia.  I may be a big Phillies, Eagles and Flyers fan but that just aint right.
Like I said above, it could have been much worse.  I was speaking with my friend Jim this afternoon and he told me that in Florida it is against the law to smoke in the parking lot of a restaurant.  Not actually in the restaurant but in the parking lot.  What kind of horse hockey is that?  Now I know there are a bunch of you no-smoking Stazi out there saying something like, ‘That’s not much of a ban’.  Well I say it is one I can live with.  I think it’s right that small bars, locals, are exempt from it and private clubs as well.   Also please explain to me why smoking should be banned from either a cigar store or a tobbaconist?
Once it’s signed by the Governor it shall become law in 90 days and on that day I will head off to my local, which is a private club and have a smoke with my pint.