"It'll hurt business originally, but then people will get used to the non-smoking thing.
Is he so sure about this? I am not.
Posted on 10/16/2002 12:05:46 PM PDT by SheLion
A proposal to ban smoking in all workplaces in Boston has not met with much controversy. The ordinance will be voted on by the Public Health Commission. "It'll hurt business originally, but then people will get used to the non-smoking thing,
NewsCenter 5's Kelley Tuthill reported that since Mayor Thomas Menino proposed the ban three weeks ago, there has not been much of a response, according to city officials. The ordinance would make all workplaces smoke free, including restaurants, bars and clubs.
"We haven't received as much input as we expected we would," commission member John Auerbach said. "We received a number of letters -- scores of letters -- and the letters are running about 10-to-1 in favor of the regulation."
Currently in Boston, smoking is relegated to certain sections of restaurants and allowed in bars in clubs.
"We are part of a trend of cities that are going smoke free," Auerbach said. "All the large cities in California are currently smoke free in all workplaces. New York City is debating virtually an identical regulation to ours."
Some Boston bars are starting a petition drive against the ordinance, but at Whiskey's on Boylston Street, managers said that they have no problem going smoke free, as long as their competitors have to.
Cigar Masters owner Steve Saloman said that he is worried that his cigar bar would go out of business if the ordinance is approved. He spent $300,000 moving his 6-year-old cigar bar to Boylston Street.
"We feel that we fall in a gray area," Saloman said. "Everybody who comes in here is here to smoke, so they're not offending anybody."
The commission said there may be an exemption that would allow Cigar Masters to stay open. A public hearing is set for Wednesday night from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Roxbury Community College. The commission could vote as early as Nov. 6.
"It'll hurt business originally, but then people will get used to the non-smoking thing.
Is he so sure about this? I am not.
Most of the people in town are from someplace else these days and yuppified beyond belief. Sheep, sheep, sheep and sheep are meant to be sheared.
I'd like to be a fly on the wall the first time a Boston Smoke Enforcer trys to tell the Boyos at an Irish bar in Southy to put out the butts. It will be a massacre that will make the fight at the now defunct Rabbit Inn look like a picnic and rightfully so.
You and me both! What a pity. Boston of all places. The prissy arsed stouts making laws that everyone have to follow. I bet they are pigs in their own homes. I'd hate to see how they live when the public eye isn't on THEM!
And that's where the business will go: Cambridge. For sure.
im sure about it, i tend to give MORE money and spend more time in resteraunts and businesses when im not surrounded by a cancerous cloud.
It shouldn’t be up to you. It should be left up to the restaurant and/or bar owner. Not Big Government!
less and less people smoke these days anyway, and even the avid smoker says he should quit.
55 million of us still enjoy smoking a legal commodity.
everyone knows its wrong to stuff a rolled up tube of chemicals in your mouth, light it, then inhale... which is why they dont mind when others dont want to breathe smoke(or like in my case, CANT breathe it)
You poor baby. I am sorry you are so sickly.
its also a good sign that in the area, the people being affected are praising it, that means businesses wont have much of an issue with it NOW just from losing the smokerson top of that, the non-smokers will like the area more,
Oh! I am SURE all you anti-smokers will pay more money to take up the slack from the missing customers. Heh!
You sure your on the right board, Sir? This is Free Republic!
What happened? Did they all move out of the City??
It's true! I have heard this all my life. Not just lately. Smokers tend to be more fun, for some reason and don't mind spending the money with a night on the town.
My one girl friend never smokes, unless we are out drinking. Then she buys a pack. Next day! No smoke. She is something else. :)
The whole CITY will have to go non smoking! All the bars AND the restaurants if the Health Commissioner gets his way. ack! Talk about ruining a good thing!
I think what you're trying to say is that you can't spell, are ignorant of grammar, can't put together an argument, are a weakling and, from the evidence, drunk.
Is that about it?
That's interesting about Cambridge though. You'd think they'd be the first place to go PC.
Is the old Plough and Stars still open on Mass. Ave? That used to be a big IRA bar for a while. Can't see no smoking with that crowd!
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I saw that! But didn't want to hurt him further. He is so sickly, you know. heh!
How are you Madame Dufarge??
Amazing how many powder puffs are around here, huh?
Further proof the restuarant owners are willing accomplices. Within a few years all restaurants will be nonsmoking and will be a distant memory.
We flew recently and my kids wanted to know what the ash trays were in the seats.
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