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Apparition
12th September 2010, 03:02 PM
MISSOULA — The owner of a bar in Turah says she's had to resort to breaking the law to keep her business afloat.

Peggy Bjornberg says business declined 70 percent in the first three weeks after she implemented the smoking ban required when the Montana Clean Indoor Air Act took effect for bars last Oct. 1. She decided she'd have to allow smoking and pay the fines to stay in business.

Erica Rollins heads Tobacco Free Missoula County. She says Bjornberg's Turah Pines Bar is the only bar in the county blatantly disregarding the law. As of Tuesday, Turah Pines faced $1,300 in fines and Rollins was preparing documentation to turn over to the county attorney's office.

Health officials hope public pressure will help bring the Turah bar in line.

Source: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_53db5d82-1be5-11df-946e-001cc4c002e0.html


Bravo, Peggy Bjornberg.

It certainly takes some courage to confront the fascist and megalomaniacal politicians who are willing to disregard private-property rights because they tend to arrogantly assume that they're more intelligent than some or most people. :)

mike88
13th September 2010, 10:51 AM
the old mafia protection racket under color of "law"

Book
13th September 2010, 10:57 AM
http://www.gringoes.com/images/JuiceBar502.jpg

"JOHN WAYNE...YOUR DRINK IS READY!"

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/johnwayne_175x125.jpg

:D

MNeagle
13th September 2010, 11:26 AM
Appeals Court: Bar Violated Smoking Ban
WCCO - July 14, 2009

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has agreed with a judge's ruling that "theater nights" in a northeastern Minnesota bar were violating the state's smoking ban.

Tank's Bar in Babbitt had allowed patrons to smoke under a loophole in the smoking ban that allows actors to smoke as part of a theatrical production.

But a St. Louis County judge ruled in May that wearing a badge that says "Actor" doesn't make it a theatrical production. On Tuesday, the appeals court agreed.

In its decision, the appeals court says "Gun SMOKE Monologues" was not real, but a sham. ...



http://www.no-smoke.org/goingsmokefree.php?id=146

Saul Mine
13th September 2010, 11:18 PM
Bravo. This crap keeps on keeping on until people start telling the law makers to go to h*ll. And then it still keeps on until the people refuse to pay taxes. And then the law makers will try to sell them into slavery so they won't have to clean up their act.