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Please also note that businesses that went bust weren't around to respond to this survey. I worked in one of those businesses.

This survey was only 7 months after the ban went into effect.
Had the business you worked for went under that quickly?

Our business went under 3/28/99. We lasted over a year after the ban went into effect. I was a bartender in a neighborhood-type bar inside a Motel 6 (so there was also a somewhat built-in customer base), located near Disneyland. Our business dropped drastically soon after the ban, once we quit we skirting around it. However, we had a patio which was helpful--our customers could smoke on the patio. Even though the smoking ban wasn't the entire reason we went under my ring did go down, about $100 a night. I no longer needed a waitress either.

The thing that really got to me were my blue collar workers. These guys are what makes America hum. They get up every morning, work all day, and all they ask is for an hour or so after work to sit at the bar and talk, have a couple beers, and have a smoke cause the old lady doesn't let them smoke in the house. Then they go home and the next day they do the same thing all over again. I don't think they're asking for too much. But Rob Reiner and the smoking Nazis do.