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Just Released: Only 2 months after the City of Omaha had to go 100% smoke free the complaints are rolling in, and not from the smokers. Yes we smokers feel upset over this ordeal because we are forced to leave the bar and go outside in 100 degree or 0 degree weather to smoke. We bitch and we complain but we have to deal with it. Well NOW the complaints are not coming from people smoking on smoke friendly patios, and in front of business but the non-smokers who FORCED them to the streets to smoke in the first place. I don’t want to smoke outside the bar; I want to smoke inside the bar with my cigarette in one hand and a nice cold beer in the other. Here is my message to all you non-smokers in the city of Omaha, if you don’t want to be by cigarette smoke then I suggest you DON’T GO OUTSIDE. Just give up. You won the battle but I guarantee if you try to win the fight you will lose. We might as well ban cigarettes all together and in the offset increase state sales tax another 1.5 to 2% to offset the lost in taxes on tobacco (which is a lot of revenue btw) because us smokers pay triple tax rates or 23.5%; for those of you who can’t do math; on every single pack of cigarettes we buy. These people who sit and just have to find something to bitch at are driving me fucking bananas and I can’t wait to blow by damn smoky cloud your way next time our paths cross.
