Smoking

What Does It Look Like When Your Southwest Plane Suddenly Sports a Sunroof?

It looks like this, courtesy John Benson, a passenger on that Southwest Airlines 737 that made an emergency landing Monday night when a hole suddenly appeared in the fuselage, prompting the Dallas-based carrier to inspect 200 planes overnight. Benson shot the video with his cell phone, but you get t ... More >>

Food For Thought 5.14.09

"I don't think we have a right to tell somebody what to do with their personal property." (State Senator Bob Deuell, a doctor, explaining his vote against a statewide smoking ban. The bill was endorsed by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee by a vote of 5-3. Deuell is a Republican from Gr ... More >>

Food For Thought 5.11.09

"I'm pleased with the results. We thought this was what the people wanted." (Rowlett mayor John Harper on the approval by voters on Saturday of a ban on smoking in that city's restaurants--all enclosed public spaces, really--first passed by the city council in February. A petition drive force the sp ... More >>

Food For Thought 4.20.09

"Enjoy our smoke free dining." (On marquee outside Cape Buffalo. The sports bar/pool hall is located on Addison Road, but on that narrow spit that belongs to Dallas. So management not only puts a positive spin on the smoking ban, but educates those who wish to light up about the establishment's addr ... More >>

Food For Thought 4.15.09

"Are the people who seek to restrict the use of tobacco everywhere--and for everyone--the same people who seek to promote the use of marijuana?" (Leonard Welsh of Plano, as quoted by the Dallas Morning News. Not sure if they are the same people, but the generation responsible for such restrictions-- ... More >>

Yes, But Can We Smoke?

City Hall would like to tell you all about the city's new smoking ordinance -- so, if nothing else, you can't say you wasn't warned before enforcement officers hand you that $200 ticket upon lighting up. Hence, this press release that just landed in our in-box:DALLAS - The City of Dallas will host p ... More >>

In the State Legislature, Denton State Rep. Introduced A No-Smoking Bill

Don't know if you're aware of this, as it hasn't made the local news yet, but on Wednesday, State Rep. Myra Crownover, a Republican from Denton, filed House Bill 5 -- yet another attempt to create a statewide smoking ban similar to the ordinance passed by the Dallas City Council one month ago. The b ... More >>

Smoking Bans: "An Affront to Freedom ... An Assault on Small Business"

Friend of Unfair Park "Peterk" forwards along this item from this morning's National Review Online, which excerpts a Friday story from the Financial Times concerning the "law of unintended consequences" created by smoking bans -- like, ya know, the one the Dallas City Council passed two weeks before ... More >>

Why the New Smoking Ordinance Should Have Been Delayed, and Sorting Through the 10 Amendments

There's a line where government stops and the rights of the people begin, and when Mayor Tom Leppert and nine of his council colleagues voted to strengthen Dallas' smoking ordinance, that line wasn't blurred, they drove right past it as if it didn't even exist. But no matter where you stand on the ... More >>

Smoke! Smoke! Smoke That Cigarette! Because, Come April, Well ...

Sam Merten Chief Ozumba Lnuk-X addresses the council today in opposition to the smoking ordinance. Hey, Adam Woods -- his real moniker -- totally stole our name! After more than three hours of tedious discussion and debate, the council voted today 10-5 to prohibit smoking in bars, pool halls and w ... More >>

Before Council Votes to Ban Smoking, a Lot of Smoke is Blown at City Hall

After nearly three hours of discussion, the city council wrapped up yesterday's briefing on the proposed strengthened smoking ordinance seemingly prepared to vote on the item at next week's agenda meeting. Council members appear poised to approve a ban on smoking in bars, pool halls and within 15 fe ... More >>

Blowing Smoke|Red-Faced Profession|From the Inside Too

"Don't Push That Smoke Down My Lungs!" Or: "Communistic!" Either Way.

Courtney Clenney Having a hard time figuring where this person stands on the smoking issue ... Yesterday, of course, was the second meeting of the City Smoking Ordinance Special Ad-Hoc Committee -- and it was supposed to be the final one before the briefing on December 3, when the entire council i ... More >>

Council Committee Moves Toward Smoking Smackdown. Could Be Worse.

Wanna Smoke in Dallas? Don’t Plan on Leaving the House.

Tobacconist Jay Fox to City: Take That Ban and Smoke It

Kelly and Kim Deal Faced Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle Together in The Breeders and With Addiction at Home

Suicidal Tendencies: Or, a New York Writer Takes Chantix

Chantix "Increasing Likely" to Cause "Agitation" and "Suicidal Behavior"

Say 'Screw It' to Smoke Breaks with Snus

FDA Makes It Official: It's Investigating Chantix and Its Side Effects

A Month Later, Carter Albrecht's Chantix Use Is Now a National Cautionary Tale

Update: Ryann Rathbone Interview Details

Cancer Happens (Or: You Could Be Next)

Sybris

Sybris ( Flameshovel)

Puff Piece

Thank You for Smoking's satire falls short of incendiary

Bar Flight

Life is a cabaret with Bend Studio's Intimate Evening Concert Series

Delayed Pain

Plus: Viva la Alcaldesa!; Donkey Kong

Best Jazz Club

Brooklyn

Best Lower Greenville Save

Granada Theater

Best Way to Laugh Your Ass Off--For Real

Personal Renaissance Hypnosis Studio

Best Stogie Depot

Montfort Cigars

No Smoking Gun

The new smoking ban will work--if no one lights up

Growth Industries

With the Vice Fund, you can invest in beer, cigs and other naughty stuff

Discordant Meows

Plus: Bashing the Bard; Smokeless Night Out; Take My Vote, Please

Where There's Smoke

Dallas considers strengthening the smoking ordinance...again

Best Sports Bar

1st and 10 Sports Bar

Mojave 3 / Joe Pernice

Excuses for Travellers (4AD/Beggars Banquet) / Big Tobacco (Ashmont/Spunk Records)

Best pizza

Brother's Pizza

Best bar for smokers

Lakewood Landing

Smoke gets in his eyes

A Dallas deputy sheriff is transferred because of his allergies

Slicing the pie

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison switches to the side of the angels in Texas' tobacco battle

Hash Over

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX