[Gabz]

If that is the case, why is it that some of the State Restaurant Associations advocated statewide smoking bans?

Most restaurant associations are top-heavy with chains and nearly totally controlled by their wishes. The chains all support the bans and he who has the money control the debate.......the mom and pops get steam rolled by them.

[trumandogz]

Back in the days when restaurants had smoking sections, the worst place to work was the smoking section because people would camp out after dinner to smoke. By the end of a shift in a smoking section a waitress would have had 4 or 5 fewer tables than people in non smoking sections.