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p>>The early evidence, however, is that many businesses are unharmed.
> In fact, though rumors swirl in an environment where every bit of news
> is trumpeted by the side it favors, a reporter could not verify that one bar,
> restaurant or club, of the more than 20,000 in the city, had closed solely
> because of the smoking ban.

That reporter is either lazy, or lying, or both.

I've been keeping an unoffical list of place that have been harmed, many to the point of closing, beucase of the ban. If this so called journalist had spent five minutes on Google, he would have found it here. Note how many of the closed bars are in NYC, including one that had been in business for thirty years, and another that had been around for more than a century. They survied prohibiton, but couldn't survive the nicotine nannies.

Thanks, BTW, to the folks who are posting things from that list. Please keep doing that - that's exaclty what it's for.

>"The city's Health Department, which enforces the smoking ban,
> has also analyzed monthly employment numbers and found no
> overall job loss in the food service and drinking industry."

>Throws out the claim by a previous poster that jobs were lost.

The Health Department, which created the ban, claims that there was no ill effect from it. How stupid would someone have to be to consider them a credible source?

(That's a rehetorical question.)

(That means you're not supposed to answer it.)

>OMG! This list is getting HUGE! What a pitiful situation for all these business's to be in.

>A VERY large list there, and I am afraid that a lot more are going to follow. Pity!

And I'm just one guy who put out a request saying "send me info." This is not anything offcial, or anywhere close to comprehsnive, but the list grows by one - three entries every day. (I don't update it that often, though - I put a new one up every couple of weeks.)