[metesky]

Smoking ban is temporarily lifted and the customers return! Who would'a thunk it?

[metesky]

Take a peek at this, folks!

[Lysander]

Smoking in a free country? Imagine that...

[SheLion]

Smoking is a time of the past," Dimakis said. "Going smoke free is the best thing I ever did."

He would never see MY money! He can keep his business smoke free. That's fine. But he sure wouldn't get a dime out of me.

[SheLion]

"Smoking is a time of the past," Dimakis said. "Going smoke free is the best thing I ever did."

What rock is HE living under?

[SheLion]

"People who drink and gamble smoke cigarettes."

People who Love Life, Play Keno, Drink and Smoke Cigarettes! And play the juke box!

And hang around longer, and spend more money!

[tm22721]

All this reveals is that the losers who smoke also drink. Who woulda thunk it ?

BUMP

[Madame Dufarge]

"I don't want to jeopardize the people coming in here now because I'm smoke free," Lowney said. "I have had more children and elderly here since we've gone smoke free."

I did bookkeeping for a bar/restaurant on Cape Cod in the late 90's.

Their biggest nightmare was buses of "senior citizens" showing up with their "Early Bird" coupons and no tips, or families with the little princes and princesses who couldn't make up their mind whether they wanted the chicken fingers or not and then pretty much stiffing the waiters and waitresses.

The profit is in the booze, and if you're catering to the elderly and the "children", good luck.

[SamAdams76]

I think the next ban should be on fake beer like Budweiser, Miller Lite and Schlitz. Bars should be forced to stock real beer like Sam Adams, Samuel Smith's, Pilsner Urquell, etc.

[Arioch7]

Ah, if you only knew just how bad it was in Mass. They REFUSE to listen to the fact that bars with smoking are more busy then those without.

You could bring them to this place before it was temporarily lifted and then bring them across the border and they would quote some bizarre statistics and keep on holding on to thier assumptions.

Deep in thier minds, they would be thinking of a way to make NH bars smoke-free.

In North Reading, most of the bars are not smoke-free and all the towns around them have people flock there on weekends to party. The citizens of North Reading voted AGAINST making smoking illegal but now a state health worker is trying to override municipal law because of "safety-reasons".

Well, these are PRIVATE areas of Business and the damn state has NO right to decide anything about this matter. It is truly sad that these people are being browbeaten... it makes me mad.

[RWG]

This happened in British Columbia and the bars across the border in the US did a boom business. Then BC relaxed the statute the same as in this story and business in BC returned to normal.