Pretty hypocritical eh? They don’t want you to smoke and yet they still allow the sale of tobacco products…interesting.
[seriously, i don’t get the no smoking in bars deal. I don’t frequent them anymore, but seems pretty much that 60-70% of the people who drink in bars also smoke. let’s keep them in one spot and let the ripraft kill themselves off instead of putting them in the general population.
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Living on the left coast, we experience this all the time. In Corvalis, Oregon, they banned smoking, so all they people drove over to Albany, Oregon 10 miles away. Because of this, DUI’s went up about 50%. In Eugene, they did the same thing, and Springfield allows it, and Dui’s went up there as well. I would rather have someone have smoke around him than go out and drive drunk! I don’t mind not having the smoke on my clothes though.
brad
They want to ban smoking,but they won’t touch alcohol.Drinking is far more dangerous to more people than smoking.Someone smoking while driving is only harming his own health. Someone driving while drunk is endangering everyone around him.
New York took an interesting tack in banning smoking. The law doesn’t prevent you from smoking in bars (or any workplace). What is prohibits is employees being exposed to second hand smoke. Which pretty much covers everything. Bars can get an exemption, if they prove they’ve suffered financially, and if they build a segregated smoking area.
I’ve come to the conclusion that many barflies are into risky behaviors, which explains the smoking and the drinking…
Local laws prevent drinking or the sale of liquor on trains in some states. For example, when the B&O’s trains entered WV the sale of liquor was stopped until the train left WV. Then again some railroads didn’t license their dining or their lounge cars in certain states because they would only travel through that state for a short time. The New York Central did not license is cars in Pennsylvania for that reason.
Some states were only dry on Sundays such as DE and PA.
I remember the “dry states” days. Are any states still dry and do planes/trains observe any?
Indiana is still dry on Sundays, sorta. You can get a drink with lunch or dinner at a restaurant, but liquor stores are closed and you can’t buy beer at the drug store or grocery store either. I grew up in Speedway, home of the Indianapolis 500 and now the Brickyard 400 and F1 Gran Prix. The 500 is always on the Sunday before Memorial Day. Try explaining to race fans that they can’t buy alcohol on the day of the race, except at the concession stands. Needless to say the stores stocked up on Saturday and some even had to post guards on Sunday to keep people from stealing cases!
I don’t think there are any states that are dry 24/7 anymore but I’m pretty sure that Kentucky and Tennessee still have dry counties. Locomutt could probably help me out on this one.
I don’t know whether trains still have to observe dry state liquor laws, but in my air travels I never noticed the airlines having to cut off the sale of liquor when the plane flew over a dry state
Liqor laws can be very strange. On the tourist line I work for, we can either have a license to sell booze in the depot, or on the train but not both. All alcohol bought on the train cannot be taken off the train.
Beer is proof that God loves us, and wants us to be happy.
Rich
You can still drink on Metra - but not on the CTA. Not too long ago, well…maybe back as far as ten years ago, Metra at least on the former C&NW’s northwest lines still had a few ‘bar cars’ complete with bartender. Metra doesn’t allow any beer or open alcohol or even bottles in coolers on certain holidays - when there is a big extravaganza in downtown Chicago - sometimes when I’ve been working late, the Metra police are at the base of the platform confiscating or inspecting everything (of course, at the former Northwestern station, all one had to do was walk downstairs and come upstairs again further down the platform. While you can drink, they don’t tolerate public drunkeness - and more than once in my experience, inebriated people have been arrested by local police at the next station. This is making me thirsty…