You're right. I don't like smoking. Would I be off-base to suggest that maybe your opinion of the story might be clouded a little, as well?
A 9% increase is not what I heard people predicting last year.
Yes, this story is spun a bit. Just like every story is spun (at least) a bit. Why are so many folks opposed to acknowledging that maybe the smoking ban isn't the end of the bar business in the free world?
You are wrong about my "hatred of smoke and smokers", though.
Besides, some of my best friends are smokers.
I will acknowlege my view is also a bit clouded, but not because I am a smoker, it's clouded because I have actually seen the books of bars in Delaware from the years before the smoking ban and since the ban. I realize the 9% is NYC not DE, but my point still remains - they mix apples and oranges to come up with the numbers.
Why are so many folks opposed to acknowledging that maybe the smoking ban isn't the end of the bar business in the free world?
Why are so many folks opposed to acknowledging that maybe smoking bans should just be left up to the owner, employees, and customer preferences of a bar business????
I put smoking bans in the same category as seatbelt and helmet laws..........I'm an adult, I do not need Big Brother government telling me what is best for me.....if I don't like smoking I will work in or patronize a place that doesn't permit it; I chose to wear a seatbelt because I choose to do so; if I'm on motorcycle I'm going to wear a helmet because I think I should.
Why does the government need to get into any of these issues????
I'm glad to hear you have friends that smoke, I've got friends that don't - we compomise.