You really need to have that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder diagnosed and properly medicated.

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who’s sleeping with who?

i smoked from the 6th grade until i was 25, then they went out the window. BUT, sometimes today i can feel the need with the right combination of foot or likker, would i like to light up??????

no, but popcorn and a smoke in the past was ‘good’.

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I am, however, completely tired of the attitude that it’s just fine to force others to breathe that putrid cancerous crap that they think they can selfishly spew into everyone else’s air.

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It’s still a government agency self funded or not.

So only Mark Dayton/State legislature can tell someone where to smoke for it to pass the “Nanny State” rule? Seems like a weak argument.

Why not take this a step further and require all of the state fair food vendors to put the estimated calorie count of each item on their menu boards and then track where and how much you’ve eaten before (you’d have to scan your ID before purchase) and if you reach a certain total calorie threshold you would not be allowed to buy anymore food.

Think how many kids we could save from obesity if we did that!

And that goes double for beer sales (we’re already halfway there now ’cause they gotta card ‘em for the alcohol sale).

@Lefty: Few people are going to “Politely ask” someone to go to the DSA so your condescending remarks about smokers, tongue-in-cheek or not, leave little doubt that you classify them at about same level as the “untouchables” in India.

Are all of your friend non-smoker?

Sorry, while I’m on board with banning smoking from the workplace and bars (and the last few years that I did smoke at home I did so outside), but I draw the line at restricting smoking outdoors, because believe it or not, cigarettes are legal to purchase and consume and if I’m paying taxes for city parks I damn well be able to use the amenities that I pay for unencumbered by silly regulations that don’t have the payoff that these people think they do.

So if the sight of someone smoking in public bothers you that much then you should perhaps consider emigrating to North Korea because the grand master plan of these anti-smoking Nazi’s is to control what you do in your private life and the DPRK is certainly the model for that.

OK, most of the above comments are all over the top (I don’t think Lefty would like North Korea all that much) but that’s the point:

There is no reason to implement this now, especially since there will be no real benefit that I can see that this will somehow improve your state fair “experience” of walking around in 90 degree heat, eating high fat overpriced fried food and drinking sugar pop while you visit the swine barn with all of its lovely aromas.

As was noted before, the number of smokers taking up the habit is down sharply so we are doing better in that regard. Thus there’s no reason to do this other then to grab some free advertising (via the newspaper “article”) to show just how progressive we are here in the land of 10,000 regulations.

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The problems I have with the ecigs is that….you can’t not look like a douchebag smoking them.

No different from regular cigarettes, in my opinion.

Good for the State Fair. Keep pushing this filth as far away as it needs to be to stop affecting others who don’t want to participate.

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State fair cops have a big enough head already in their little fiefdom. I’m going to make a bet that there will be some problems this year. I wonder if this ban will apply to other events hosted there? I.e. Back to the 50′s. If yes, then for sure there will be issues.

As far as e-cigs, I guess if you have a home made unit all rhinestone encrusted and flashing LED’s then you may be a bit obnoxious. But I’ve never felt using an e-cig drew any more attention to anything else. I’m not a smoker though so maybe inside the smoker circle, e-cigs are looked down on.

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Higher priorities? Probably. However, especially during the day, there are few serious incidents that are going on and often I see them wandering around enjoying their free access to the fair together.

The first time I’ve ever seen a need for police action was this summer when a passed out drunk was literally being carried out of the bathroom next to the fried pickle stand (god are they terrible fried pickles) by the cops.

I am not sure I would want police officers necessary wandering around looking for smoking enforcement opportunities, but telling people to go elsewhere wouldn’t take much time as they wander past trying not to get mustard from their Pronto Pup on their uniform.

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Smoking was OK on the fairgrounds for the last 153 years, so why do we need to designate outdoor areas now?

Because the anti-smoking Nazi’s want to impose their value system on those who they deem need to be told how to live and what lifestyle they should emulate.

Sorry (full disclosure: I’m a former smoker) but this is just another ridiculous PR move by the state fair board to appear that they are acting in everyone’s best interest when in fact this policy will have negligible impact.

I also am getting tired of everyone’s favorite reason for imposing rules like this: “It’s for the children”

Please show some stats that show how many toddlers were burned by people who had “careless arm positioning while smoking” at the fair.

I’d be more worried that my kid would get kicked or stomped on by a horse or other miscue than getting burned by some cigarette.

I thought a lot of the people around here hated “The Nanny State” type of government regulation that this really is.

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