[Hell to pay]

Now, he said, his association plans to argue that exceptions for bars and the like in Maine should be eliminated as a matter of FAIRNESS to their workers and to restaurants where smoking is prohibited.

What? The Smoking Ban hurt the restaurant businesses? This idiot would fix it by more banning!

[SheLion]

This idiot would fix it by more banning!

All the restaurants in Maine were FORCED to go smoke free in 1999. Now they should leave well-enough along. But.....as you read, they want a "level playing field." heh!

So that tells me they KNOW the damage that was done to the smoke free restaurants, and now they want no smoking anywhere, "to make it fair to everybody." Fair???!!!

[Gabz]

What? The Smoking Ban hurt the restaurant businesses? This idiot would fix it by more banning!

That's generally the way these people operate.