[Great Dane]

You mean the City Council banned smoking at Bingo games, even though the surrounding towns didn't??? What were they planning to do? Build guard stations so no one could leave town on Bingo nights? I'll bet those small towns have seen a nice increase in Bingo revenues. They're not going to change.

Yes, thats excactly what I mean, the City has already bailed the bingo halls out to the tune of a million and a half, leaks has it they are still giving the halls money, just to keep them quiet.

And for the first time, bingo halls in the outlying areas are advertising on TV.

[Publius6961]

Well!
I do trust that they are getting the revenue from the tobacco "settlement".

after all it was "free money"

[laredo44]

Yes, thats excactly what I mean, the City has already bailed the bingo halls out to the tune of a million and a half, leaks has it they are still giving the halls money, just to keep them quiet.

Where'd the 1.5 mil come from? I mean our government budgets have absolutely no fat in them, so how'd they come up with the extra dough? Wonder what expense account they'll book it under.

[speekinout]

And for the first time, bingo halls in the outlying areas are advertising on TV.

Those bingo halls are probably lobbying like mad to keep the restrictions. They're happy; the bingo players are probably happy enough; the anti-smoke folk are probably happy.
The malcontents are the taxpayers who have to fork over the money to the bingo halls that are never going to get their clientele back.

BTW, I live in the county that was going to ban smoking in your own home if the smoke drifted to where a neighbor might be offended. International attention of a highly negative sort got them to change their minds. But I think the anti-smoke folks are just lying low waiting for another opportunity. They're so zealous, they don't care who they hurt, or what has to be sacrificed to get their way.