[Namyak]

To your two points. I will admit that perhaps I was a little too simplistic when I stated that a non-smoking bar wouldn't be competitive... it could be competitive given the right environment, which the owner in Delaware obviously found; however, I doubt that his business model could be adopted en masse and be just as successful for numerous bars in the same area.

As for your second point about the casinos in Delaware, at least the Delaware Legislature didn't have the audacity to blatantly legislate to favor their own interests, which unfortunately I still doubt the Pennsylvania legislature to do. All you have to do is look at the Pennsylvania government pay-raise debacle to understand my skepticism.

[Gabz]

I agree with you about the non-smoking bar not being a business model to be adopted en masse - that is why this guy was so opposed to the ban. He had found his market niche and the ban was taking it away from him. Numerous non-smoking restaurants also opposed the ban, because they had found their niche, by their own choice, and the ban would take that away from them.

I totally understand your skepticism regarding the casinos in PA. Politics in DE are not pretty, but becasue the state is so small the cronyism, corruption, and double dealing go unnoticed on the national level. It's as bad there as in PA or NJ and one of the main reasons I left.

The PA legislature would be fools to ban smoking in the not yet existing casinos precisely because Delaware bans it. A large portion of the revenue in DE racinos come from PA - PA would see all that back and then some as folks would be coming up to PA from DE and your own folks would stop coming to DE.