Posted on 09/20/2005 2:38:10 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Smoking Ban Meeting Planned For Tuesday
POSTED: 7:04 pm CDT September 19, 2005 UPDATED: 1:35 pm CDT September 20, 2005
MADISON, Wis. -- The Madison Common Council is preparing to clear the air on the city's smoking ban Tuesday night.
Many of those who have rallied to repeal the smoking ban are expected to attend Tuesday night's common council meeting.
Three smoking-related things are on the agenda including an outright appeal of the ban, an amendment to allow businesses to apply for a hardship exemption and a proposal for a citywide referendum.
"It doesn't look like there's enough votes to repeal the ban," said Mayor Dave Cieslewicz. "And at this point, it doesn't look like there are enough votes for the other options as well. At this point, it looks like the smoking ban will remain in place."
Spokesmen for the group that supports repealing the smoking ban said they have eight of the 11 votes needed for repeal.
Keep up the good work!
The antis lead has dropped to 58%.......hee hee hee!!!!!
lol - see above.
hint,hint
So many people rant and rave over WalMart supposedly putting mom & pop stores out of business....yet the same people have no problem supporting these bans, even though they are being supported by the big national chain restaurants with the SPECIFIC intent of putting the local mom & pops out of business.
pinging all cars. Need your help on this poll, people. Many thanks. :D
Yes, I am, thank you. And the bone doc gave me the OK today that I can drive again!!!!!!!!!
Now hubby has no excuse to NOT get my car running again. the last time gas got put into the tank - it cost less than $2 a gallon :)
Good point. I never made the connection before. You are a deep thinker. ;)
You're dead on, because it certainly isn't a RHINO thing. They're cutting peoples' throats twice as fast as the dems are.
Now hubby has no excuse to NOT get my car running again. the last time gas got put into the tank - it cost less than $2 a gallon :)
A random survey shows Lincoln residents overwhelmingly support the city’s smoking ban — and they believe it’s made bars and restaurants healthier places to drink and dine. Nearly 72 percent of those surveyed said they support the controversial Smoking Regulation Act, which was passed by 62 percent of voters in November.
In addition, 85 percent of those surveyed said they went to the bar as much or more often since the ban went into effect Jan. 1; 89 percent said the same thing for restaurants.
Still, some bar owners said the ban has hurt business. And at least one — Big John’s Billiards — has blamed the ban for its closing.
“I think the smoking ban has cost us customers, it has grown some customers for us and it has changed the way customers behave,” said Michael Carpenter, owner of Libations, Too at 5310 S. 56th St.
Mayor Coleen Seng and other officials announced the survey results Monday at the Red Fox Steakhouse and Lounge, 1339 W. O St.
They chose the Red Fox in part because its owner, Don Arena, initially opposed the ban.
“I was so scared that my business was going to be hurt,” Arena told reporters.
He has since changed his mind.
“It’s done wonders for my business,” Arena said, adding a personal note: “I can come to work and breathe normally.”
Others apparently feel the same way, too. The survey showed 91 percent now consider restaurants and bars healthier; 73 percent of those who smoked felt the same way.
“The act is doing exactly what it was intended to do: Protect the health of Lincoln’s employees and residents, and this survey shows that Lincolnites appreciate that,” said Cindy Jeffrey, a spokesperson for Tobacco Free Lincoln, one of a handful of groups that worked to pass the law.
Brian Kitten, a partner in Brewsky’s Food & Spirits, said the survey numbers don’t tell the whole story.
He said keno revenues are down — an average of 23 percent from a year ago — because of the ban.
“Those people are going somewhere else,” Kitten said, suggesting many now leave Lincoln for Waverly or Denton.
The ban has hurt parts of Brewsky’s business, he said, especially revenue from pool and darts.
“The customer who comes in to play pool and darts is generally a drinker and a smoker,” Kitten said.
Officials did not have figures on the economic impact of the smoking ban.
About the survey
The June random phone survey of 982 residents was done by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services regulation and licensure section of data management to gauge support for the city’s smoking ban.
Of those participating:
* 78 percent described themselves as nonsmokers
* 22 percent described themselves as smokers
Compliance not a problem
Between Jan. 1 and Sept. 11, authorities wrote 22 tickets to individuals and four to businesses; they also fielded 50 complaints. And 97 percent of smokers who responded to the survey said they always comply with the ban.
Not a deep thinker, FRiend - just been at it a long time (sometimes I think too long)
It was the chains, Applebee's, TGIFriday's, Ruby Tuesday's, etc that got the Delaware Restaurant Association to stop fighting the smoking ban if it were amended to include bars and taverns. The chains run the DRA and everyone ignores the fact that the DRA represents only about 10% of all eating establishments in Delaware.
Hubby filled his pick up last night @ $2.75 a gallon. It was $2.73 this morning. I'm totally tired of the price games on the gas.
bump
Remember what I said on that gas thread a while back about the repubs having about 6 months to do something-or....goodbye in the '06 blowout & hello, Billary in '08. And, you;ll also recall, I, and the few who agreed with me got trashed for it. A few called us communists.
They better wake up and do so FAST.
Others apparently feel the same way, too. The survey showed 91 percent now consider restaurants and bars healthier; 73 percent of those who smoked felt the same way.
Now 248-210!! C'Mon, Randall, get here & bring the rest of the posse!! LOL
Very intersting...nearly identical numbers have been arrived at by every other survey done by other DHHS's in other parts of the country.....and I owuld venture to say that Nebraska used nearly the identical questions used in other states.........and not a single one of the "surveys" asks anything about the rights of the business owner to make their own decisions.
These "surveys" are geared specifically to get the results they desire by the wording of the questions.
Just voted...248-211 repeal the ban can catch up.
248-212
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