Starbucks Smoking Ban

[anthonyrosenthal74]

I regularly frequent a Starbucks, about two hours a day or more. I usually spend an hour before work, an hour on my lunch break, and sometimes after I get out of work and on my days off. I enjoy their coffee, and I like many others, enjoy a smoke with my coffee. The other day one of the Baristas, a fellow smoker, informed me that as of June 1st, you have to be 25 feet off the property if you are going to smoke. Meaning, if you're gonna smoke, you basically have to stand out in the middle of the parking lot somewhere. This is terrible news to me, as I really enjoy smoking either my pipe or a cigarette as I'm sitting outside. Now I'm no longer going to be able to do that. I know it sounds like I'm belly aching but... well yeah, I'm belly aching. I guess it's just another attack on smokers. Personally I don't see how second hand smoke is that big of a problem out doors. I can understand not smoking indoors, but outdoors in my opinion is a joke. People are breathing in automobile exhaust and who knows what else, and their worried about my tobacco? I'm not sure I want to frequent Starbucks any longer, now that I know as long as I'm sitting there, I'm going to be fidgety and wanting a smoke that I can't have.

 

[crpntr1]

Hmm, yea I'm with ya. I was supposed to meet baron at Starbucks Monday for a smoke too, guess we better check on this one

 

[cigrmaster]

If that is going to happen at all the Starbucks across the country then they are going to lose some serious business. Every Starbucks I have been to usually has a group of people hanging out and smoking. I personally will never go there again if this is how they are going to treat smokers.

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

yeah might be a good idea Chris. She was saying it was going to be all Starbucks. To bad, I would have enjoyed a smoke with someone someday while enjoying my coffee. I'm in the DFW area myself. You and the Baron have a good time where ever you end up... which likely won't be starbucks.

 

[eazye77]

Starbucks sucks anyway. Hate their coffee.

 

[teufelhund]

One of these days I'm just going to pack up and move to Austria; smokiest country in the world:

1. Austria

> Pct. adults that smoke: 47.0%

> Pct. men that smoke: 48.0% (15th highest)

> Pct. women that smoke: 47.0% (the highest)

> Per capita cigarette consumption: 1,650 cigarettes (15th highest)

> Cigarette prices per pack: $6.20 (14th highest)
New Guinea, Chile, and Russia are all high on the list with about 40% or more of the population being smokers. Austria is just bound to be prettier and have better skiing.

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

I think it's pretty crummy of them. Going into the hot summer months here in Texas the only people stupid enough to sit outside and bake are people like me that like to smoke with their coffee. I think they're going to lose quite a few customers over this.

 

[papa]

Just read today, Starbucks employees are filing Federal lawsuit, because they are required to split tips with managers and supervisors. Piss off the employees, and customers.

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

I actually had not heard about the lawsuit papa. And I'm friends with a couple of the employees where I frequent. That's too bad. Starbucks employees really don't make a lot of money, those tips should go to them.

 

[Wellington]

Starbucks is so overpriced anyway, I support the local coffee shops when I go out.

 

[captainpeg]

I will now stop using any Starbucks products, and will not under any circumstances stop at one. If they don't want me there then I will oblige them....

Randy

PS - I use their coffee regularly. Sorry, USED to use their coffee regularly. Just about had it with rediculous edicts from the New World Order.

 

[erichbaumer]

Definitely a BS situation.

On a lighter note, here's to Dunkin' Donuts I guess!

And Starbucks had moved up a notch in my book with the open carry deal too... Oh well.

 

[Wellington]

Besides, those idiots unleashed the Keurig K Cup System on the world and each of those damn cups take 600 years to disintegrate in a land fill.

Completely agree.
And whatever happened to the days of using your normal coffee maker, or those simple one cup makers that work just fine. (I'm saying this in response to Keurigs, not going out for coffee)

 

[numbersix]

Besides, those idiots unleashed the Keurig K Cup System on the world and each of those damn cups take 600 years to disintegrate in a land fill

+1
I know a lot of people like it,and no offense if you do, but Keurig is the worst abomination to happen to coffee. It's watery, has no flavor or body - cannot believe how popular it is.

 

[rayje589]

I personally think starbucks is overpriced, so I don't frequent it in the least... nor do I particularly care for coffee anyway. Also the state law already bans smoking in most places. I'm not certain but I believe there is also already a smoking ban of 20-30' of an entrance.

 

[Wellington]

It's watery, has no flavor or body - cannot believe how popular it is.

Yep.
None of the coffees I purchase even have options of k cups. I stick with a coffee merchant in town that sells coffee beans by weight, from all over the world, many of which are fair trade or direct trade. If not that, I often buy Kicking Horse coffee, excellent coffee and also fair trade.

 

[Wellington]

And I don't mean to sound like a coffee snob, I enjoy a cup of Nabob like anyone else.

 

[blade]

I'm a Keurig user. However, I use the reusable cups. I grind my beans and put them in the cup.

 

[philip]

Smoking is prohibited within a presumptively reasonable minimum distance of twenty-five feet from entrances, exits, windows that open, and ventilation intakes that serve an enclosed area where smoking is prohibited so as to ensure that tobacco smoke does not enter the area through entrances, exits, open windows, or other means. ...

WA St Law RCW 70.160.075

It won't make any difference here. Here in Washington State this is already law for every business, not just a single store's policy.
Enjoy what you have while you have it.

 

[hemsworth]

Has anyone here ever tried roasting their own beans? I've never liked Starbucks and the absolute worst crud that they sell as coffee is Tim Horton's. That company has everyone so brainwashed up here that it's not even funny. The only place that I can get a good cup of coffee in the Ottawa area is Bridgehead. Great coffee, in fact. Besides that, I can only drink my own home roasted coffee.