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Re: Image comments for uh..........nice stripes
Posted by: FrostedApe
Date: 09/04/2009 06:47AM
Uh, no. I thought I was sufficiently clear, but apparently not. I will try again.

The voluntarily smoke-free bars and restaurants couldn't pay people to go there. Not enough, anyway. People went where they could smoke. Even non-smokers wouldn't go. One of the smoke-free pioneer restaurants went out of business three times in four years. Yes, there were people clamoring for smoke-free places to eat and drink, but when it came time to put their money on the table, they wouldn't do it. So, the city decided for us that all restaurants would be smoke-free, with the exception of the places that had a barroom attached. Guess where people went? They went where they could smoke. So the unfortunate owners of the smoke-free places whined to the city that it wasn't fair, and a couple years later they made all businesses smoke-free.

If people really wanted smoke-free bars and restaurants, the city wouldn't have had to make it a law. It would have taken care of itself.

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