[fight_truth_decay]

Owners of New York Inc., a regional trade group of electronic game and jukebox operators.

June 10, 2004-"For 35 years I have been a provider of electronic games and amusements, mainly to bars, taverns, restaurants, diners and entertainment centers. I have never seen such a drop in business like the one this past year. It is directly tied to the smoking ban.

I talk with other service providers (food, alcohol, cleaning supplies, even state-sponsored "Quick Draw" gambling). When it comes to bars, restaurants and other businesses they serve, they all have the same story: Many have closed.

Now several bills have been introduced to revise New York State's smoking ban, almost a year old. These proposals would exempt bars, taverns, clubs and entertainment centers that primarily do not serve food from the smoking ban and require them to install air-purification filtration systems.

Some kind of reason, common sense and accommodation must be brought to the financial crisis many are finding themselves in." More:

Shaun Levine, executive director of the New York State Conservative Party, was strongly opposed to the bill. Her group is trying to get the state to amend the Clean Indoor Air Act to allow more waivers for businesses that blame the smoking ban for revenue losses.

"I think it's insane that we send our boys to Iraq to defend our country, but they can't have a cigarette," she said Monday. "They can give their life, but they can't have a smoke."

Should bar owners showing "financial hardships" from the smoking ban under the Clean Indoor Act be granted "smoking waivers"?

[Mears]

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[Madame Dufarge]

Even if bars are hurting, she said, it's a public health issue

Ah yes, let them eat cake.

See, Janine Stuchin, project coordinator with the Adirondack Tobacco Free Network's southern region base, has her rice bowl, so who cares about the incomes of the little pipples she and her fellow Nazis are tanking?

[Zon]

A property owner can refuse access to any person he chooses for any reason or no reason. Not even government officials, such as law enforcement officers can trespass on a person's property. Unless invited onto the property by the owner they must obtain a valid search warrant. No person is forced to enter another person's property, for to apply force would be akin to kidnapping. No person can force a property/business owner to hire them.

A government that is so mistrusted that it requires a search warrant to enter a property is among the worst to decide that strangers must be given access to a person's property/business. No person is forced to breath smoke for they are at all times free to walk out the door.

[swarthyguy]

As if these clowns care.

They're just ecstatic to see bars start closing. That's their goal, the ban is a nice trojan horse.

Even some nonsmokers are waking up to the fact.

As much as I can, I boycott them, one individual won't make much of a difference and once our statewide ban goes thru, it'll all be moot anyway.