[SheLion]

"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.

[SheLion]

Actually, I haven't heard much about this until now. No wonder they haven't had much opposition! They have kept this pretty much under wraps.

[metesky]

Of course he's right. Boston, my home town, used to be a city where a tough independent people lived. Now the only place left with any balls is Southy.

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.

[swarthyguy]

YEs unfortunately, he's right, ithink.

Plus we have the city of cambridge which surprisingly shows no desire to stop smoking in bars and nightclubs.

[MacDorcha]

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. less and less people smoke these days anyway, and even the avid smoker says he should quit. 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) when they arent smokers. 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 smokers. on top of that, the non-smokers will like the area more, and come more often, and smokers can still breathe non-smoky air like the rest of us, until they "need" to duck out and (oh God, no!) walk a half a block!

[VRWC_minion]

managers said that they have no problem going smoke free, as long as their competitors have to.

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.

[A2J]

While I abhor smoking and tobacco companies, neither do I appreciate government telling private businesses that their patrons cannot smoke in their establisments.

[lodwick]

Idiots and bttt

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

"It'll hurt business originally, but then people will get used to the non-smoking thing.

CASH registers will be going silent soon

Tell me something is it me or is the liberal nazis pulling out all stops this year to ruin this country these types of things are becomming common place and it seems to many people are sitting on their arses and letting it happen

[realwoman]

Well, I guess I know where not to take my vacation dollars next year!