Del Mar Fairgrounds has banned cigarette smoking
Del Mar Fairgrounds has banned cigarette smoking
In response to complaints about marijuana use at summer concerts, the Del Mar Fairgrounds has banned cigarette smoking at the annual county fair and approved a policy allowing pat-down searches at reggae concerts.
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The new rules will not apply to the dozens of other concerts and events – including the summer horse races – held at the fairgrounds and racetrack throughout the year.
Now I love The Del Mar Racetrack, and my family has gone here for years. But these people are killing it. This ban is just the first step in a total smoking ban. Bing Crosby is rolling over in his grave. And if they do a full smoking ban at The Del Mar Racetrack, I will just spend my summers in Monte Carlo.
They claim that “on-track season attendance dropped by 4.3 percent, to 688,097 (16,002 per day). Total handle slipped 7 percent, to $559,076,029 – the track’s lowest figure since 2002.” I was there all summer (more or less). Attendance was down at minimum 30%.
Now they are making the track more restrictive. When the only people that want to visit San Diego are broke families from Arizona and other hick bible belt spots and San Diego has no tourism dollars they will realize the stupidity of this.
Question: Where is a rich European or South American cat NOT going to go to spend $15,000 over a weekend for vacation?
A. Las Vegas
B. Miami Beach
C. San Diego
(Answer “C”)
Where is an overweight family of 5 with shorts and visors from Flagstaff or Oklahoma city or some shithole going to “splurge” $1100 for a 2 week vacation?
A. Las Vegas
B. Miami Beach
C. San Diego
(Answer “C)
More importantly:
Where is a beautiful 20 year old Estonian Model girl NOT going to go with two of her model girlfriends for a weekend of dancing, smoking cigarettes and drinking without being ID’d past 1:29am?
A. Las Vegas
B. Miami Beach
C. San Diego
(Answer “C”)
Where is a weesh middle American 25 year old girl that can’t dance and wears jeans, flip-flops and tight tops going to go to party with her equally weesh girlfriends?
A. Las Vegas
B. Miami Beach
C. San Diego
(Answer “C)
The Rest is Up to You…
Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
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22/10/2008 at 10:21 am Permalink
This does not sound like a very good policy if it only applies during the summer. I personally, and professionally, don’t like to be around cigarette smoke either -actually I would prefer the marijuana smoke as it has never been shown to cause death or disease, but cigarette smoke obviously has. Tobacco (cigarettes and chew/spit, etc) is the only legal product that kills when used as intended by the manufacturer.
This video: http://www.spike.com/video/shards-o-glass/2682054
gives a sort of analogy.
If you (I don’t know if you do personally, but the impersonal “you”) smoke cigarettes in this day and age, not only are you buying what big Corporate America (aka the Corporatocracy) -Philip Morris, Altria, RJ Reynolds etc- is selling, but you probably more closely fit the demographics of the -as you put it- “overweight family of 5 with shorts and visors from Flagstaff or Oklahoma city” because the majority of current day smokers are at an extremely low socioeconomic status often with mental illness and substance abuse issues to boot. The tobacco industry actually has increased nicotine yields by 10% and it continues to go up, making it harder and harder to quit, especially for the socially disadvantaged.
The industry adds extra nicotine and other free-basing agents like ammonia and formaldehyde to make it hit the brain faster. Another analogy= if cigars are to cocaine (both used by the wealthy in a purer form) then cigarettes are to crack cocaine (both used by the poor in a chemically altered free-based state).
I’m just sayin’…the rest is up to you…
🙂
Take care.
Cassie
http://www.lifetransplanet.com
24/10/2008 at 9:31 pm Permalink
Greetings in the name of Jah Ras Tafari! This ‘search’ paractice is discrimination against the reggae lovers nation and a disgraceful insult to my intelligence. It is laughable to say that any reggae music lover would complain about the smell of ‘herb’ burning at a reggae concert. The system is a fraud, but the G Manifesto is bonafide.
Peace to the Peoples Champ.
28/10/2008 at 5:32 am Permalink
I’ve been sending links to my fellows all day long to get here and read this thread – I look forward to other posts you publish