| This is an open letter to all of the members of Calgary Pub and Bar Association (CPBA) that are still fighting for smoking to remain in bars. With all due respect, shut your stupid, stinky, tobacco-breathed holes! The bar industry will not perish if it goes non-smoking. In fact, the reverse will happen. As a travelling entertainer, I have seen other cities (with city councils possessing more backbone) that have gone non-smoking and have, as a result, been filled with happy customers. Happy they no longer have to go home smelling like they were camped out in a ’70s bingo hall and, in some cases, happy to be out in the night life for the first time in years now that the stink has been removed. I have many friends and family that don't participate in the nightlife scene simply because the smoking irritates them.
Now the CPBA is fighting for smoking on patios. Why should the small minority of idiots, wishing to slowly poison themselves, get the fresh air of the patio while those of us smart enough not to smoke can't enjoy a nice sunny day without breathing in their pollution? You want a compromise? How's this. Smokers can have the patio from November to April. The rest of the year it is non-smoking. Seems fair to me.
Fast Forward could do all of us a favour and publish the names of backward-thinking bars that are members of CPBA so we can let them know, with our wallets, that we will not support them and their smoking dinosaur ways.
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