Fort Wayne's Repressive
Smoking Ordinance
If you smoke, don't come to Fort Wayne, the City Council and the Mayor see you as an unwanted and unwelcome intrusion into their city, except for your tourist dollars, of course.

Why would you want to bring a convention into a city that sticks its nose way too far into the affairs of private citizens? How can your smoking members feel comfortable and relaxed in a city that sees them as but disgusting people? Go somewhere else.

Fort Wayne is a world test market and has been so for many decades. But the test products now include social experiments, such as the current smoking ban, to condition people to give up their civil rights at the government's discretion.

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In 1998, City Council passed their first smoking ordinance, which mandated restaurants independently ventilate smoking areas. And many establishments spent $50,000 or more to comply. Now, in 2007, the city council says that this is not good enough and that they have wasted their money in compliance with the old ordinance! (Shouldn't the city be sued for their expenses?) Somehow secondhand smoke on other smokers is not tolerable. Worse still, is that the new ordinance goes into private businesses and tells them that they cannot even have separated and ventilated smoke rooms for their employees.

The only fair way to enact such an ordinance is to let the citizens vote on it themselves, instead of having special interest groups and stooges, such as the city council and the mayor, mandate it. Otherwise, it is not democracic but dictatorial behavior. Whenever possible, the people should be allowed to govern themselves.

Vague Definition

At section 95.60, Smoking is defined as "Inhaling, exhaling, burning or carrying any lighted cigar, cigarette, weed, plant or other combustible substance in any manner or in any form."

The ordinance is aimed at secondhand smoke of any kind!

Lighting a candle is prohibited and subject to fines under this definition.

It is safe to say that the aim of the ordinance was to prohibit secondhand cigarette smoke, but that they went wild and included every kind of smoke under the sun.