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Thanks!! The way the people in this state voted for this ridiculous smoking amendment, I have to agree with you , "Most of them are Braindead"!!

They have absolutely no clue what they voted for! The anti's think it was for them, that they shouldn't have to be submitted to secondhand smoke. They voted to protect the workers not themselves!!!
I think we need to impose a non-smokers tax here in the State of Florida. Add it to their restaurant bill and then give it to the business owners who are hurting so desperately!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the URLs, Gaml. I knew about Empire, and as much as I'd love to put all of their locations on the list (along with all the jobs lost) they didn't specificly say it was the result of smoking bans, just that that was a bit of a contributing factor. Unless the owners are specific, I don't put it on the list. I need this list to be as accurate as possible, and that will mean leaving out a few iffy places. After all, if I wanted to lie about it, I'd be a nicotine nanny, not a freedom fighter.

As for articles that don't post a % of loss, they're still handy for another page I'm doing, so keep 'em coming.

Where does it end?

In your own home. While some nannies claim they have no desire to go after people in their houses, anyone who has dealt with them knows they are compulsive liars. Your home is next. There is already legislation in California that would encourage apartment dwellers to sue their smoking neighbors. And in a 2001 interview John Banzhaf, one of the top nicotine nannies in the country, had this to say: "The next two obvious steps, already in progress, are restricting smoking on beeches, parks, lines, doorways, where people have to go through what they call the gauntlets of tobacco smoke, and then restricting it in homes, particularly where there are sensitive children."

As to the increases in Asthama, note that when everyone smoked everywhere, asthma was at 10% of the population. Now that smoking is prohibited just about everywhere, asthma is up to about 25%. There's some fascinating research going on about this, but the results won't be known for years. It appears that making our environemtnst too clean is unhealthy for us. We need to be exposed to toxins and irritants to build up a resistance to them. Discover magazine had a great article about it.

Keep that info coming folks! It won't appear immediately, as I add it to a database and then generate a new page after several new entries, but it will show up in a few days. And please send it directly to me at hittman@davehitt.com. That way you can be sure I'll get it.