If a business owner wants smoke free, that should be left up to him and his patrons. And not nanny government. Nanny government didn't put blood, sweat and tears into a business. Yet, they are allowed to go in and dictate how the owner is to run it? Totally disgusting.
if a bar owner wants a profitable smoke free building, he needs to lobby government to ban it everywhere. we recently had this problem in my county, just the county was going to ban smoking. altho all the owners i know don't smoke, and would like smoke free bars, they knew that many people would go the extra couple miles past county lines to go somewhere to smoke. owners said make it statewide or forget it.
Why of course! If a restaurant/bar that I like to go to went smoke free and the one across the street stayed open for smokers, that is exactly where I would go to spend my money. Surely, you don't think that I will patronize a smoke free joint spending good money when they refuse to accommodate me?!
You are talking about a level playing field. And you are also saying that all business's must be made smoke free so this one business doesn't loose money. Well, excuse me. But all the rest that go non smoking will also lose a lot of revenue. We just don't "go there anymore."
And why would the business lose money? I thought smoke free is what everyone is screaming for!
Why do bar owners spend many thousands of dollars on smoke eaters? If smoking bans were good for business, you'd think the bar owners would simply ban smoking and save the money they'd no longer have to spend on air filters and such.
Perhaps the business owners know what the Smoke Nazis refuse to admit: that smoking bans cost THOUSANDS of dollars in revenue. And unlike the Smoke Nazis, they're willing to put their money where their mouth is.