This is great news, and I hope this really does get enforced!

Awesome news! Great to see public health becoming an issue in the DR. Wonder what's next? trans-fat ban?

It's a good move ... annoying at first but in the end the smokers I know came around and agreed with it here in NYC.

This is great news! I'm so glad to see we attack the real problems, because, you know, the real problem in DR is all that smoking in the clubs. Yeah, that's really the concern of the citizenry. Why all these little dog and pony shows when we have serious problems that need more focus as opposed to diverting resources from those issues to enforce some bs thing like this that has shown to hurt the entertainment scene (restaurants, bars, clubs) thereby reducing income for the State and causing more unemployment at a time like this? Oh wait, that's right, our great leader L has continually stated we are immune from the rest of the world's economic woes. I feel so blessed to be Dominican under such fine leadership after the debacle of Meja. It's a rare country that has the benefit of being ruled by two complete idiots/scoundrels/cheats/thieves and liars like we've had the pleasure with our last three Presidents. (Counting L twice, once before Mejia)

What about about the carbon monoxide from all the junkers in the streets?

If we are going to clean up the air let's clean it all up.

What about about the carbon monoxide from all the junkers in the streets?

If we are going to clean up the air let's clean it all up.
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Took the words right out my mouth! especially Motoconchos, and old diesel trucks, that leave everyone temporarily blind and coughing as they pass by.

I will be happy when I see this law enforced! Odds are that it will be enforced for a few months, then everyone will forget.

Good point "time2rize" I agree. DR should create car testing stations around the contry and have the old cars meet some kind of standard. This will also create some new jobs.

Once again personal freedom is lost in the name of junk science.

Forget science, in the name of etiquette. Smokers can enjoy their stench all they want at home.

What an incredible waste of time and resources. I certainly do not like smoking anywhere. But this is just one more area to falsly be concerned while letting the entire Country burn to the ground. In one day all the energy problems could be solved in the DR merely by getting rid of the motoconchos, the busses which are smoking, the publicars who are out of exhaust control, the trucks which are even worse. Forget the smokers, focus on the real smokers on the road. This will last for a few hours and go away as it did last year. In the North Coast no one pays attention to anything for more than a nanosecond. How ridiculous. Use the "police" to deal with the drugs or even better use the "police" to deal with the "police" to deal with the "military" to deal with each other. What a Country, what a waste of money and time.

Written by: Manhattanite, 13 Mar 2009 3:19 PM
From: United States, New York City
Forget science, in the name of etiquette. Smokers can enjoy their stench all they want at home.

While i agree it is basic manners not to allow your smoke to bother anyone else a law imposing etiguette is oxy-moronic.

Etiquette is a product of education and culture. It cannot be legislated.
Would you want to have laws dictating the way people dance? What they drink in a club?
How about a law that punishes people who use the wrong fork.

One other thing.

This is just another law taking away private property rights. A business should be allowed to have smoking. If you don't like it just don't go there.

antonyC

Normal people that don't smoke are not the problem Smokers are the problem. Why should people be expose to this cancer causing situations when didn't choose to if they want to smoke thats fine kill your self but don't hurt innocent people in the process. I have been to Chile and trust me you don't want 80% of the people around you smoking all day long.Why should others pay for their addiction.

We (NH Real Arena) went smoke free a month go for all indoor areas...but we enforce it...no government. Had to politely ask a guy to butt out his cigar in the lobby with a "no smoking sign" within an arms reach of him...he was less than cooperative and of course...I am an a-hole for "politely " asking him to take it outside.


Here is the deal....we cannot control traffic...how the hell do you think smoking will be handled??

Of course, this will not apply to resorts, and seeing that most casinos are on resort property...much like the popular discos...nothing will be enforced.

Hollow laws.

s a good move ... annoying at first but in the end the smokers I know came around and agreed with it here in NYC.

And this law killed the bar business in NYC

few Dominicans smoke this will be for the Europeans who have much higher smoking rates....North Americans have been getting the message for some time

It is wonderful to walk into a place where smoking is not allowed. The difference is enormous, I can breath easily, no coughing, no burning eyes, no headaches. I love it when I go to a restaurant and nobody is blowing that nasty and stinky smoke in my face. At the beginning here, smokers and bar owners were complaining, but eventually, they adapted to the new rules and learned to live with it. I applaud this measure of banning smoking in enclosed places, it is a life saving!

Damn I was hoping that the nanny state non sence of urban US culture would not follow me to the last frontier...

They should throw every inconsiderate smoker in jail. I don't want to have to inhale your garbage against my wishes. Frankly I don't see what you dopes get out of your annoying and filthy habit.

Good Grief! This news from a country that cannot deliver clean water!

Written by: Escott, 14 Mar 2009 5:18 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Sosua/Cabrera
They should throw every inconsiderate smoker in jail. I don't want to have to inhale your garbage against my wishes. Frankly I don't see what you dopes get out of your annoying and filthy habit.

That is what you people don't get.

You don't have to inhale the smoke. nobody is forcing you to go to a restaurant. If the owner wants to allow smoking it is his right. Just like it is your right not to patronize the restaurant.

You don't have a right to tell people what they can do with their private property.

It is true we don't have the right to tell others what to do in their own homes, but we are talking about places where the public congregate. It's very difficult to avoid inhaling somebody else's smoke when it circulates in the room. We are talking about people's health. I'll say that a smoker's freedom stops when his smoke invades another person's breathing space.