Smoking is now prohibited in virtually all indoor public places and places of employment.
One of those places is bars.
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Sitting on a stool in Casey’s Bar in Breckenridge, Baumgartner shared her thoughts on the smoking ban.
“I can tell you that when that law takes effect I will not be in this bar,” Baumgartner said. “I will sit in North Dakota so I can enjoy a cigarette.”
Rena Demer of Wahpeton fully agreed with her friend.
“Who is going to want to go outside while their beer is inside,” she said.
The Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drugs (ATOD) coalition in Wilkin County strongly supports the law.
Brenda Woytassek, director of the coalition, says that the law protects people who want to breath clean air and have the right.
Noting how the times have changes and smoking has become increasingly unpopular, Woytassek said non-smokers have had their rights trampled in the past because there was no law to protect them.
“They used to smoke in movie theaters,” Woytassek said.
Baumgartner strongly opposed the idea that a ban should be so universal that it would apply to a bar.
“People smoke in bars,” she said.
Baumgartner said the law is going to be devastating to Breckenridge bars.
“Casey’s and Legends are going to lose their business,” she said.
With human health the fabric that held the smoking ban legislation together, the idea that smoking causes people to die deeply bothered Demer.
“My dad died of cancer six months ago, and he quit smoking twenty years ago,” she said.
Demer said people die when God decides.
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