Entries tagged with "social life"

Smoke-free Ohio

posted by srah on November 8, 2006 5:50 PM

Tags: ireland, ohio, smoking, social life, voting

I was very conflicted on Issue 5 in this election: a proposed smoking ban to affect all bars, restaurants and other public places in Ohio. On one hand, I felt like a statewide ban was really strong, and preferred to leave it up to individual establishments to decide whether they wanted non-smokers' business. On the other hand, I don't want to breathe the stuff. All in all, I was just glad that it was on the ballot because it was really making people think about smoking. This was the only thing on the entire ballot that I had any real...