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I am deeply saddened by this further infrigement upon smoker's rights - I had invested heavily in companies that manufacture artificial larynxes, portable oxygen equipment, drugs used to treat emphysema, throat and lung cancer, plus radiation and surgical equipment used to treat throat & lung cancer patients in clinics and hospitals - the govmint should not be regulating legal activities and telling business owners what they can and cannot do -

I don't like the smell of some perfumes and at times the smell has given my wife severe headaches. Some have even experienced asthma attacks from the smell of these sickening health degenerative liquids. I think it is time to outlaw perfume. After all, no one has a "right" to use perfume. And why should you be able to use these caustic smelly odors at the risk of my and my family’s health? No one really knows how much harm my lungs have experienced from smelling you and your sickening perfume. It is time to put these factories out of business. How can anyone work in the perfume industry knowing you are killing innocent human beings?
I call on the legislation to put an end to this madness. There should be laws to protect me and my family from this danger. At the less, there should be perfume and non-perfume seating in restaurants.

I'm all for banning smoking in public places. It is filthy, stinking and makes me sick. Apparently people that smoke don't know how bad they smell. I get sick of trying to eat out and someone light up and their nasty smoke comes up my nose and wore yet is them spewing out the smoke from their mouth or nose and I have to breath it in after it has been in their lungs. That is just Gross!!! Perfume and smoking are two different things. Perfume is NOT a physical thing like smoke.

Choices, that's what we all should have.
If you don't want to eat at the restaurant that offers smoking then don't eat there.
No one is making you eat there.
People don't realise that our rights our slowly being taken away from us. A business owner should be able to make that decision for themselves.
In California in an effort to curb the obesity epidemic, health officials are considering banning new fast-food restaurants from being built.
Who knows what their going to ban next.

I saw the poll results on fox8 wghp and 48.8% did not want this ban to 42 % who did. Once again the majority was ignored by the government gods. It is a violation of our freedoms and after spending hours online sending emails to our so called representatives asking them to have the balls to stand up for our freedoms rather than caving in to the big government opression of our rights and freedoms it was SO IN VAIN! Our representatives who work for us OBVIOUSLY don't care what we think, they obviously don't care how many jobs will be lost when restaurants and bars begin to close as most smokers (who believe in the freedom of choice which is our right under our Constitution) will not patronize businesses who don't allow smoking. I CANNOT WAIT until election time next year so we can get these socialist, anti-American democrats out before they put us under total government control as they are getting ready to do under social medical care where we the workers have our paychecks taxed MORE so the lazy welfare and illegal kids' parents can continue to sit on their asses while we work to pay for their healthcare.

Well, Looks like I'll be smoking it up right at the door where you non smokers come in to eat in your clean enviorment. Enjoy walking through the smoke.

as a career hospitality worker, who has managed restaurants for the past ten years, i just want to say thank you to the legislators who are allowing me to work in an environment similar to bankers, grocery clerks, factory workers, retail workers, insurance agents, teachers, doctors, dentists, etc....second hand smoke free!

I am very liberal. I supported Purdue and Obama. I fi had any complaint, it would be that most Democrats aren't liberal enough. However, I am 1000% against this smoking ban. It is a fundamental right of North Carolinians to smoke in confined spaces. I don't get on people's cases for bringing their loud, obnoxious kids to restaurants where I'mn trying to eat and/or converse. Most family restaurants have separate smoking sections anyways, why ban it completely?

The loophole should be included. If it is a bar or club that is 18 and over, the choice to allow smoking should be up to the owner/management.

Once again our socialist liberals in congress have ignored the people, but most importantly the laws. They have infringed on the rights of property owners and citizens' privileges breaking the very laws set forth by the US Constitution! Amendment XIV; Section 1 states that NO STATE shall make or enforce ANY law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall ANY STATE deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny to ANY person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. This is PRECISELY what this state did! In one word, due process is fairness. Throughout the U.S.'s history, its constitutions, statutes and case law have provided standards for fair treatment of citizens by federal, state and local governments.These standards are known as due process.When a person is treated unfairly by the government, including the courts, he is said to have been deprived of or denied due process. The Fourteenth Amendment PROHIBITS the deprivation of liberty or property without due process of law. A due process claim is cognizable ONLY if there is a recognizable liberty or property interest at stake. NON SMOKERS liberties nor properties were at stake, thus this smoking ban is UNCONSTITUTIONAL! There are many restaurants that have already gone smoke free thus the non-smokers have a choice. The smokers now have NO choice. In my opinion, these so called congressional officials that passed this smoking ban did not do their jobs upholding the laws of the United States Constitution that they took oaths to do when they accepted the office. I find this to be an impeachable offense and hope to see their removal. I also hope to see smokers, tobacco company employees and even non-smokers who believe in citizens rights, support only the restaurants that still believe in personal freedoms and welcome smokers. Are there any tobacco company lawyers out there? Are there any lawyers out there in pursuit of justice that would dare to challenge the NC General Assembly?
Sadly, this is just the start of total government control. Watch Fox News cable channel to find out what the socialist democrat controlled congress has in store. Hopefully, we will survive long enough to vote them out.