Ziggy’s Ritz- YOU SUCK.

F&%K YOU MAN!!

If ya don’t like smoke, then don’t fucking go out!! Taking away smoking, is taking away another one of our human rights. Pretty soon, we won’t have any left.

Sad – smoking is one of the many freedoms our country has earned and been proud of for centuries … without tobacco many of you may not exist by the sheer fact your families would never have settled here in the first place.
The smokers in this country deserve to smoke freely just as the non-smokers deserve to enjoy smoke free areas freely.
Just as a smoker wouldn’t frequent a nonsmoking establish – a nonsmoker has that same choice … oh wait – with the new law ramping up to go into effect – uhm – smokers no longer have that right – !? Right?!
if you don’t want to be around smoke then don’t go where there are smokers.
Clearly – people should have the right to choose … establishments should also have the right to choose which of the two they prefer to solicit to as well … it’s the new segregation of our wonderful United States!
(btw – I am a non-smoker! … everyone should have rights to be free in their prefernces)

“To implement and enforce this new law, the Director of Health will adopt rules focusing on enforcement authority and procedures. While ORC Chapter 3794 became effective Dec. 7, 2006, the director of health then has six months, or until June 7, 2007, to adopt rules.”

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Other things that are rights that the government regulates besides smoking:

1) Marriage between two people
2) Drug usage
3) Abortion

darth vader sucks.  i would use a cartoon name too if i was him. i’ve beaten him at darts. so what.

you idiot! They’re not the only one that has smoking. I think you just need  to stay home and stop whining you little baby

personally i think smoking should be illegal since everybody knows it kills so many people every year.
but since it is legal you should be able to smoke in any place that allows it. let the non-smokers go to places where smoking is not allowed. i smoke sometimes when i am drinking and i don’t think a non-smoker should be able to stop me.
lets all vote to make a law that says you will get arrested ANYWHERE that you do not have a cigarette in your mouth you will be arrested. i think we all know that 95% of people that voted for that law do not even go to bars.
so shut the hell up and leave smokers alone !!!!!!!

…of all the dives and gin joints in this world she had to walk into this one. The watering hole was named Ziggy’s Ritz and I was working deep undercover. If my cover was blown and my real identity as David Esrati, ace volunteer detective with the Ohio Bureau of Smoke Detection was known, my investigation would be literally up in smoke. So I pulled the collars of my trenchcoat over the side of my face and tilted my fedora over my forehead. I was shocked, shocked to see the rampant law breaking going on in front of me; Marlboros being lit and enjoyed. Winstons and Camels were the drug of choice in this dive, and I was determined to bring them to justice. I could barely contain my rage when the doors swung open and she entered. To say she was classy was like saying the Bob Hope was a comedian. She had a face that Saint Peter would mistake for one of his assistants, legs that the Radio City Rockettes would envy and a balcony you could do Shakespeare from. When she looked my way, and ambled toward my barstool, I almost forgot my mission. She sat down next to me, her intoxicating perfume almost making me forget the choking smoke fumes that filled this den of inequity. For a few minutes we made small talk, and she seemed to like my company. But then she reached into her Dolce and Gabbana purse and pulled out a pack of Virginia Slims. Slowly she pulled one from the pack and placed it to her full and lucious lips. “Would you like to go back to my place?,” she asked sweetly. “Only if your place is smoker’s court,” I said, slamming the trap shut and handing her a $100 citation. “You may be smokin’ hot, sweetcheeks, but you’re also smoking.” Being Dayton’s chief smoke investigator is tough and often thankless work, I thought to myself. But as long as some low life lights up in an Ohio tavern in violation of the smoking ban, I’ll never rest. Or my name… Read more »

Smoking should be illegal. So should fast food for obvious reasons. There should also be a regulation on sugar intake and there should be a mechanism to log the # of hours children can watch TV or play video games because of their contribution to ADD. 
However, I think that children that watch less television than the regulated allotment should be able to sell their additional unused sugar and hours in a cap and trade system to other children. 
And why not? If I can get enough people to vote the way I feel, we can totally ignore the freedom of those affected. We can completely “instruct” people on how they should utilize their property and also live their lives. And society would be better for it. We would all be slim, trim, philosophically ignorant and ready for our fuhrer. 
It is patently obvious that the author had no other options except Ziggy’s. He was forced to go and I empathize with his anger at his superior non-smoking attitude and the lack of anyone to forcibly punish those that were inferior to him this night. For, does Ziggy’s not understand, that was is theirs is ours? Certainly we did not put mortar to brick, nor design the products nor the menu, but are we not all an inner connected species? Are we not the architects of this society upon which Ziggy’s chooses to rest? How can they possibly ignore our sentiment, how can they pretend to choose paths for themselves when we have so clearly laid before them the best possible option? 
This thought process is damaging to the freedom and health of all of us. There should be outrage and we should replace the owners of Ziggy’s with someone more apt to understanding there is no such thing as private property. 

Good God!!!   who cares how many years its been and people still smoking there!  quit your bitchin’ and just never go in there!  I”m sure Ziggys won’t close down cuz it didn’t get your bar sales!  

Anyone remember how Applebee’s chose to go nonsmoking well before the law was passed in Ohio? I was a non-smoker then. To this day I won’t eat at Applebee’s. I realize they aren’t missing my business any, but it’s matter of principal.
I was at a bar the night the law went into effect. At the time I thought I’d never get to go out again. For a 20 something, that’s a little depressing, but I’d rather stand for what I believe in. I’ve actually only been out to a bar once since and it was after I heard the law wasn’t being enforced. Good. I don’t tell you that you have to smoke, so you aren’t going to tell me I can’t.
Allergies to smoke are rare and if I’m around someone with them, I won’t smoke. That’s rude. I’ve never had a problem with the smell, don’t understand the fuss about how smoke seeps through from the smoking section to the non smoking section, and even while eating, have never been bothered when friends light up across from me. I’ve been a smoker, been a non smoker and through it all have never been bothered and never understood the whining about it.
It should 100% be up to the businesses to decide. I have no problem with that. I don’t think any of us do.  That’s a law for which I would be willing to vote!