[andyk]

Connie Olson, executive director of Community Action for Tobacco Free Living, a group that pushed for the ban, said some of the negative talk becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

"All customers hear are bartenders complaining. Who wants to hear that?" Olson said.

She's blaming the bartenders? Yeah, that's clever. It's not her fault!

[Chena]

The article also stated, "Family restaurants like Applebee's and Perkins, and upscale places like Black and Tan, where smoking had previously been allowed at the bar, saw no ill effect in their July revenues."

I believe the reasons that these "family restaurants" aren't feeling the impact is that people don't spend an entire evening at a family restaurant. Even a heavy smoker can get through a dinner at a family restaurant without lighting up. But a bar? Bars are gathering places where people can spend many hours entertaining each other. To compare a family restaurant to a "bar" is absurd, IMO.

[jjmcgo]

No, the bartenders where she lives will soon do what the ones in New York City did: Double prices and occasionally spill a drink on a person boasting about how much they love the smoke-free bars.
"Oooops, so sorry bitch"