You could not be more wrong. This has NOTHING to do with money,nothing. The only way that would make sense, was if Ralph himself were to uproot the team and move it to Toronto. He gains absolutley nothing from this. The reason for the Toronto series was to spark international intrest, so when it came time to pass the torch, potential buyers from Canada would line up(as of now, no Wilson is in line to take over for the old man). Yes, tickets are more expensive in Canada, but so is everything else. Again, this ban is coming down, probaly, because of the amount of complaints that have been received over a period of time. The Bills #1 priority is the fan, and I doubt that they have had anybody complain about breathing too much fresh air.

I’m not a smoker, and I hate this policy. An obese person who needs to take more than one chair is more annoying than a smoker. So if you want to discriminate against a group of people because its bad for their health and annoying to others, why not kick out the fat people while they’re at it?

The Bills want to move to Toronto, solely to make more money. Although most home games in Buffalo are sold out, average ticket price is only $50. They could get $150-175 in Canada. For the last five years, they have been testing the waters by playing one or two home games in Toronto. It’s called the American Football League. What could be more American then moving offshore to make money?

Outsourcing, that’s what. They should contract game playing to a team from China. If it doesn’t perform, fire the whole team by not renewing its contract, which works better than firing the coach. IBM and Microsoft do it all the time. It’s the American way.

Again, you are asserting your opinion as scientific fact. If someone is smoking in your actual seating section, they should be tossed immediately. The smoking areas are not in the seating areas, they would be near the outside by the concourse area. Far from the seats. If you are saying that the smoke is blowing in from those places, then you need to be sniffing out bombs at the airport.

Lots of outdoor stadiums have banned smoking inside the stadium. But they either A. Have a cordoned off area far away from seating, or B. Allow you to step outside the stadium and smoke on the street, and reenter. How is that not fair for a non smoker?

Face it. You are just a damn crybaby. And crybabies get their way in this country.

When the Bills move to Toronto, I will enjoy their new policies!

I love how so many of you are calling smokers “whiny” when your main arguments are “it smells gross and I don’t want to smell it”, and “I paid to come to the game and I don’t want it around me”.. Wah Wah Wah. You sound like a child who needs their mother to make the big bad bully go away. Americans have really become a bunch of wimps.

Also, the whole “it causes cancer” thing is the biggest load of crap I’ve ever heard. News Flash *Sitting next to a smoker in an outdoor arena will not give you cancer”. You have a better chance of getting cancer from the sun shining on you during the game.

Many of you have also said that it’s a private business and they have the right to ban smoking. Now that’s something I can agree with, except that’s not how you really feel. You’re the same morons who lobbied to get smoking banned in bars and all other public indoor places. Those are private businesses, but the government won’t give those owners the right to allow their patrons to smoke. That’s called hypocrisy my friends. If you wanted to go to a non-smoking bar than open a non-smoking bar.

Cigarettes are perfectly legal and harmless to a non-smoker unless they are stuck in a small smoke filled room. The Anti-Smoking lobby not only baffles me, but it strikes me as UnAmerican. You people need to start worrying about your own lives and not what’s going on around you. You really just come off as a bunch of whiny, entitled, babies.

By the way (and I know I’m going to get killed for saying this) there is NO conclusive scientific proof that second hand smoke causes cancer. It’s just assumed that it does and it probably could (everything causes cancer nowadays) but people keep referencing that as if it’s a fact, but it’s not.

Given that the national smoking rate is about 20%, it is hardly a stretch to think that among a blue collar demographic like upstate NY football fans, it is substantially higher. The whole thing is just lame.

Up until I quit I would go out to the designated area at halftime to light up, but mostly because I was bored, not because I was Jonesing so badly. If you need your nicotine that badly, get an Electronic Cigarette and smoke wherever the hell you want.

The people that break the rules should be ejected from the premises. No warnings, no exceptions. Light up in the stands/bathrooms/hallways and you’re gone. Not hard at all.

A designated area does not impinge on anybody’s rights. As other posters have said, this is a slippery slope and it will not stop there although that is more an issue from a gov’t/tax standpoint than an individual company’s preference. Today it’s smokers, tomorrow, drinkers, next “fat people”, after that…”health nuts” should start worrying that a convenience tax will be bestowed upon that little bottle of water that they depend on so much so there is never one out of arm’s reach.

For everybody saying stuff like second hand smoke causes cancer, etc. that’s true, but what are the parameters? Do you even know, or do you just parrot the common knowledge general conclusion without any knowledge of the circumstances that brought it about? Anything consumed in mass quantities can kill you. The fact is second hand smoke can cause cancer but the exposure amount necessary is never mentioned by the anti-smoking folks because it makes their argument sound less genuine or convincing. You are more likely to be affected by the volume of noxious material emitted by the cars in the traffic jam to get out of the stadium than you would by standing in an outside designated smoking area for the duration of the game.

Could we have a link to that totally made up fact? The 75 percent air recirculation? It’s probably somewhere on a page with a hockey stick graph.

100 percent of people that post statistics are not scientists.

But diesel fumes do.. and so does the sun.. everything in moderation. Smoking is stinky and disgusting, but smelling it for a second isn’t going to hurt you.

I quit smoking about 5 years ago now, and I still can’t stand the ridiculously overzealous anti-smoking lobby.

Ban cell phone use because it can cause cancer.

Ban select types of food because they can lead to obesity which can be linked to heart disease.

Smokers have accepted the designated areas, it is the morons who smoke wherever they want that ruin the experience. If the minimum wage gameday employees the team hires did more than just stand there and enforced the rules by kicking those people out, we could all attend games in harmony.

Get your facts straight. The Bills don’t have “a limited fan base”. They consistantly sell out games and are one of the only small market teams that do. They are always the highest rated program in the time slot on TV when the games are shown in this area. When the stadium was an 80,000 seat stadium they did the same. Buffalo Bills fans are very die hard fans. Even with the poor seasons we have had, the fans still pull through with sell outs at the stadium.

So mase7286, don’t talk shi* about what you have no clue about.

The real issue seems to be that the designated areas may not be strictly enforced so they’ve decided to cut the cord all together.

Everyone has rights … and if an outdoor section could be enforced properly then it should be …

Smokers take note, because I believe those that have taken liberties outside the designated areas have cost you this!

HOWEVER …
Give the smokers their nicotine fix and enforce the Zero-Tolerance within the nicotine free zones!