Should the government tell Louisiana bars to put out the smoking cigarettes lamp? A bill to extend the state's restaurant smoking cigarettes ban to all bars gets its first hearing of the session during a Senate committee meeting today.
Presently, state law forbids smoking cigarettes in all restaurants, but in bars that serve food, it's allowed. Bar owners would rather not have the state telling them to forbid smoking cigarettes, says Chris Young, a lobbyist for Louisiana bar owners.
"We feel it should be a business decision, made by business owners and their customers," said Young.
Carrie Broussard of the Louisiana Campaign for cigarettes-Free Living says the people who work in bars can't make that decision. No matter how much they dislike the smoke, they have to stick around until the end of their shift. She says they deserve the same protection that other workers in the state get from second-hand smoke.
"What we would love to see is that all employees in Louisiana are protected at some point in the future," Broussard said.
On the streets of the French Quarter, some folks told WWL First News that smoking cigarettes and drinking go together like red beans and rice.
"Usually people go into a bar to smoke," said one man in the Vieux Carre.
"They gotta be able to smoke cigarettes in bars," said another.
But a woman who said she's a bar employee told WWL that the smoke cigarettes can be tough on her.
"I work in a bar myself and have asthma issues, so I would really appreciate it if they ban it from bars," she said. "People can smoke cigarettes outside. It's not that big a deal."
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