{"id":479,"date":"2006-09-16T05:37:42","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T09:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=479"},"modified":"2006-09-16T05:37:42","modified_gmt":"2006-09-16T09:37:42","slug":"swingers-can-swing-and-eastern-ontario-bar-says-smokers-can-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"Swingers Can Swing, And Eastern Ontario Bar Says Smokers Can Smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is going to be a fun one to watch legally.  After the Supreme Court of Moonbattery okayed sex in &#8220;swingers clubs&#8221; because they were private, a bar in eastern Ontario is looking to cause similar waves by opening a &#8220;smokers club&#8221; to get around the laws in Ontario.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As 20 people smoked cigarettes and cigars while being served drinks by contract workers, club spokesman Mike Kennedy said he will continue operating until he\u2019s \u201ctaken out in handcuffs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The club, Doolittles, has already been charged for violating the Smoke-Free Ontario Act.  Kennedy said the club is private because only paying members are allowed inside.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Supreme Court of Canada recently upheld the rights of private swinger\u2019s clubs in Quebec to allow sexual activity on the premises and questioned why smokers shouldn\u2019t have the same freedom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think we all know the downside to smoking and second hand smoke, but I think this one will be especially interesting as the Supreme Court has ruled on a similarly run facility in favour of the facility.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep an eye on the case and let you all know how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is going to be a fun one to watch legally. After the Supreme Court of Moonbattery okayed sex in &#8220;swingers clubs&#8221; because they were private, a bar in eastern Ontario is looking to cause similar waves by opening a &#8220;smokers club&#8221; to get around the laws in Ontario. As 20 people smoked cigarettes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-healthcare","category-politics-provincial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}