Posted on 06/23/2002 9:26:10 PM PDT by chance33_98
Smoking Ban Hurting Tempe Restaurants
Tempe, June 19 (AP) -- It may be a breath of fresh air to walk into restaurants here and not smell smoke, but restaurant and bar owners say they're smothering.
They are asking the City Council to do something to ease the financial pain arising from the new, restrictive anti-smoking ordinance.
A number of owners say revenue is down by as much as 20 percent since the voter-approved ordinance took effect May 30. They plan to outline their concerns during a council meeting Thursday.
"You can either kill yourself with gloom and doom, or you can take the tack that clean air is far better than dirty air," said Lee Fairbanks, who spearheaded the campaign to restrict smoking. "It's healthy, it's better than sitting in a cloud of cancerous smoke."
Since Tempe voters approved the most stringent smoking ban in the area, police have responded to 38 complaints of smokers in bars and restaurants but issued no citations.
For him, and others like him, I recommend multiple readings of Atlas Shrugged. I don't mean that perjoratively...it's a great read, and I'm never able to pick up everthing the first time through!
Here we go again - To all who take the time to go back and read post # 212, please be sure to see also Post # 278. Seeing as how I am the one that Don is quoting in post 212 - I felt the need to clear up HIS misunderstanding of my post.
"All enemies, foriegn and DOMESTIC." Guess which you are?
We're bombing the wrong thugs.
Tom, you really have to get back on those meds. Or, those guys in the white coats will be visiting you again.
I can tell that I win friends everywhere I go. Maybe, I could visit for Sunday dinner next week?
I don't normally go a second day on a thread, but I had to address you at least one more time to try to make up. If you don't talk to me again, I just don't know how I will make it through this life, much less even go to sleep tonight.
So just because it's a well known concept makes it right, or makes it so that we shouldn't fight for the actual concept of freedom from tyranny?
Childish evasions notwithstanding, you advocate violence against people to force them to do what you want. That might be a symptom of mental illness, or maybe just pure evil. In either case, it isn't me who needs medication.
Non-smokers just want equal representation.
Not hardly. As I pointed out earlier, non-smokers want to have their cake and eat it, too. They WANT to go into the establishments that they WANT to and have them operated the way they WANT them to. The entire world (or even Country) can not operate in the manner any of us wish. I dislike places that look dirty and avoid them at all costs. That does not, however, give me the right to send in the government goons and make the OWNER live up to my standards any more than your desire to eat in a certain restaurant gives you the right to send in the goons to tell the OWNER of that restaurant that he/she must meet YOUR wishes/desires.
We just want a little respect. I can tell that you and I are not going to agree on this subject.
At least, try to get a long vacation.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.