Link: Postbulletin.com: Smoking ban at fair goes too far - Mon, Jun 30, 2008.
Your article in the Tuesday paper about the Olmsted County Sheriff's Department giving out tickets and people being sent to court for smoking is ridiculous. I certainly understand nonsmokers not wanting to be by smoke and I believe there are a lot of considerate adult smokers out there not meaning anyone harm and get out of the way of people while smoking. Has anyone told the"carnies" yet? Who's going to run the show? I would hope the sheriff's department has more important things to do than to police smokers. I have also heard how backed up our courts are and we're doing this now? What has Rochester come to? Government needs to stay out of this. Have we lost ALL common sense? Shouldn't we be more concerned about violence and accidents in and around the city? I would sure hate to hear someone got hurt and couldn't get the help needed because the fair needed "smoker police." Sheila Haskin
