Posted on 09/30/2006 3:20:05 AM PDT by SheLion
Always nice to have coffee and a smoke in the morning with a FRiend, SL.
Bump to the thread, too. ;-D
I've followed this issue very closely for several years, enough to say what happens in the long-term.
Casinos and other gambling enterprises lose between 15% to 20% of revenue when smoking bans are introduced. Revenue slowly recovers to pre-ban levels after about two years (not to the rate revenue was increasing before but just to pre-ban levels) as some smokers adjust and more non-smokers go into the casinos.
Bars lose 20% of revenue on average and recover to pre-ban levels within about a year. The impact, however, is not general across the board. Some bars are effected very heavily and never recover. Others are not hit that hard and recover quicker and go on to increasing revenue in a short time.
Restaurants, however, seem to do better. The non-smoking environment brings more non-smokers in and restaurants most often see a 10% increase in business after a smoking ban.
Was this article written by an angry FReeper?
Tobacco is one of the Four Sacred Plants, anyway.
It's cultural and appropriate for tobacco to have a place.
It allows them to be smugly superior, and feel good about Saving The Earth and Bringing the Workers' Paradise, while plundering a group who has fallen from disfavor and has no power.
Give me a second, I need to crank up the turntable so I can put on my broken record: These legislatures doing what we don't want them to do are the same legislatures who would be voting on naturalized citizens being eligible for the presidency and other possible constitutional amendments. They cannot be counted on to prevent a President Ahnold or President Jennifer, nor prevent James and Joseph from getting hitched across the land if it comes down to an amendment. The Framers assumed responsive state legislatures, but these are anything but.
Indian casinos are a rotten scam and no one will ever change my mind about these so called "sovereign nations" and the end run around US laws while they profit off of US citizens. 90% of casino tribes got their casinos via connected Democrat lawyers who greased the skids for them in various state legislatures and the federal government. Where rag tag bands of rascals with 25% Indian blood get tribal status - needed to get casinos
If that pet peeve makes you a crank, then I've been one for years! I've been railing against misuse of the apostrophe for 20 years myself. Dagnabbit, use an apostrophe for the possessive, not the plural!
Stay at home smokers possibly saving more.
L.O.L....Non-smoking gambling casinos...only works in Vegas baby!...there are not enough gamblers in Washington to support it...trying to get tax money from thin air. Try something else Christine Haywire......
I think this is fantastic. Let those anti-smoking nazi's figure something else out. How about taxing tofu and organics to make up the loss.
Wife and I stuck it to NJ by quitting smoking June 1. At nearly $7 a pack, I figure they've already lost a thousand bucks from us from the 5 dollar a pack in taxes.
Business at online gambling sites will increase.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
The only correct way to "level the playing field" is to roll back the assault on property rights, and let the owners decide whether to accommodate smokers.
Sometimes I think I need something a lot stronger then coffee to get through some of these threads. LOL!!!
I'm sure you know what I mean! :)
Sure, if they are a big chain that helps each other out with subsidiaries. This isn't true of the smaller private business owners.
Once again, no. In fact, I don't know many FReeprs that don't use the spell check, do you?
Exactly right. If smokers continue to boycott places that won't accommodate them, the loss of revenue is going to hurt. And why should we spend hard earned money in a place of recreation that has a reform school setting?
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