{"id":305,"date":"2011-01-29T12:56:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T19:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theloungeisback.wordpress.com\/?p=305"},"modified":"2011-01-29T12:56:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T19:56:56","slug":"bowling-green-heart-of-tobacco-country-going-smokefree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Bowling Green, heart of tobacco country, going smokefree"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting. Last week, Bowling Green,<\/a> Kentucky, right smack dab in the middle of smoking country went smokefree. Bowling Green is surrounded by tobacco farms. In 1987, tobacco was the No. 1 cash crop in Kentucky. A city surrounded by tobacco farms going smokefree, almost as weird as Virginia (home of RJ Reynolds) and North Carolina (home of Altria) going smokefree.<\/p>\n

This story<\/a> looks at concerns by business owners and the local VFW hall over the new law. But, I love this one quote from an old-timer regular at a Bowling Green bar called the Little Brown Jug. \u201cPeople will come in,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is our home.\u201d <\/p>\n

That’s usually what happens. People keep coming in. I know at the diviest of the dive bars in our town, the old-timers still go in to their second home. Their lives haven’t really been affected.<\/p>\n

The other funny thing is there is a really aggressive anti-smoking ban zealot who posts all over the Internet (I hadn’t heard anything about this guy for at least 18 months, but then he showed up on some site I posted on a couple of days ago. I then did a quick Google and found out he’s been posting his spam like crazy all over the Internet on any and all smoking ban stories. He’s just obsessed.), who lives near Bowling Green. It’s gotta really chap his hide that the nearest city is smokefree!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interesting. Last week, Bowling Green, Kentucky, right smack dab in the middle of smoking country went smokefree. Bowling Green is surrounded by tobacco farms. In 1987, tobacco was the No. 1 cash crop in Kentucky. A city surrounded by tobacco farms going smokefree, almost as weird as Virginia (home of RJ Reynolds) and North Carolina … Continue reading Bowling Green, heart of tobacco country, going smokefree<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[60,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smoking-bans-2","category-tobacco-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-4V","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":291,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=291","url_meta":{"origin":305,"position":0},"title":"American Lung Association: You all FAIL!!!","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"January 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"And you! 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