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To: kabar
Interestingly, the Texas Restaurant Association is made up of Restaurant owners.

The fact is that overtime, due to public demand, the number of venues where smoking is permitted will continue to decrease.

This is true from the movie theater to the airplane to the office to the restaurant.

The owners of all the above at first resisted smoking bans but now if bans were lifted very few if any would revert back to the days where smoking would be permitted in their venues.

156 posted on 10/22/2007 11:50:41 AM PDT by trumandogz (Hunter Thompson 2008)
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To: trumandogz; kabar

The owners of all the above at first resisted smoking bans but now if bans were lifted very few if any would revert back to the days where smoking would be permitted in their venues.
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Well then, let’s try it, I’m game... Lift all these draconian bans and see who reverts back to smoking or not.

Free Market - What a Concept!!!


158 posted on 10/22/2007 11:54:53 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Land of the Fee)
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To: trumandogz

Again, you don’t need government mandated bans to achieve that result if smokers are so offensive to the vast majority of people. Each business is capable of making that decision and so is each consumer. And certain businesses can decide to cater to the niche market.


160 posted on 10/22/2007 12:02:25 PM PDT by kabar
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To: trumandogz
“By applying an equitable ban that is enforced in all workplaces

Seems this would imply that establishments operating under a ban were at a disadvantage.

but now if bans were lifted very few if any would revert back to the days where smoking would be permitted in their venues.

If this were in fact true, then why the need for an "equitable" ban? Because the market spoke and the government had to be called upon to stifle it, under the guise of "equity."

161 posted on 10/22/2007 12:06:02 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: trumandogz

Prove it lift the ban.


259 posted on 11/19/2007 1:20:19 AM PST by the7erm
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