- Michael LeBoeuf
Posted on 11/06/2003 7:28:30 AM PST by SheLion
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| Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company. - Michael LeBoeuf |
Businesses Harmed by Smoking Bans
Anti-smoking organizations insist that bans are somehow good for people in hospitality businesses. This chart shows otherwise. These businesses have lost a significant portion of their business as a direct result of smoking bans. Many are closed. Many that are still open have told us they doubt they'll survive much longer.
Most of this information comes directly from businesses that have contacted me or my colleagues. Some comes from newspaper articles. Blank spaces in the chart represent data that is unavailable, or that doesn't apply. (For instance, a distributor doesn't receive tips, and many owner-operators of small taverns don't have any employees other than themselves and family members.)
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Crocodile Cafe Restaurant Closed 100% 100% Tempe AZ Pooch's Easy Street Billiards Pool Hall Closed 100% 100% Tempe AZ Laurel Bowl Bowling Alley Closed 100% 100% San Luis Obispo CA 385 league bowlers quit when the smoking ban went into effect, with a loss of $200,000. Laurel Bowl had been in business for 37 years before the ban. Alexander Mackenzie Inn Hotel Not Yet 92% 16 Fort St. John CAN "Since we were `beaten' into compliance by the WCB, our business has dropped in the lounge from $1,000 a day to $80. " Beacon Hill Arms Tavern Closed 100% 100% Ottawa CAN Dave O'Connor, who successfully ran Ottawa's Beacon Hill Arms pub for nine years, said the ban forced him out of business. "From September to February, we lost close to $80,000 in sales" Bud's Place Tavern Not Yet 23% Cambrage CAN Gardeli's Bar/Restaurant Closed 100% 100% Castlegar CAN Hemingway's Bar/Restaraunt Not Yet 40% 6 Ottawa CAN MacKenzie Lounge Tavern Not Yet 80% Yellowknife CAN Mingles Coffee Shoppe Coffee Shop Closed 100% 100% Kitchener CAN Rupert Pub Tavern Closed 100% 100% Prince Rupert CAN Sky Garden Restaurant Closed 100% 100% 6 Ottawa CAN "It was 100% because of the bylaw. Sales dropped 50%. Our cups of coffee were down 400 to 500 a day, our meals 20 to 30 a day." The Patch Tavern Not Yet 70% St. Albert CAN Tubbys Pizza Pizza Parlor Not Yet 20% 2 Crescentwood CAN Back Stage Cafe Bar/Restaurant Closed 100% 100% 20 Wilmington DE Coach House Bar/Restaurant Closed 100% 100% 8 Wilmington DE Just Mugs Saloon Tavern Not Yet 33% Bear DE Naamans Cafe Restaurant Closed 100% 100% 8 Wilmington DE Elks #1795 Lodge (Private Club) Not Yet 40% 22% Fort Walton FL "Charity money is down 45%. Our Charities are Kids of Florida and the Veterans. That is who is really getting hurt the most by this!" Elks #2256 Lodge (Private Club) Not Yet 20% 30% Pensacola Beach FL "We've lost 70 members because of the ban" Elks #2273 Lodge (Private Club) Not Yet 60% 60% 1 Plantation FL Melons Bar & Grill Bar/Restruant Not Yet 50% Port Charlotte FL The Falls Restaurant Closed 100% 100% Naples FL "We lost 70 percent of our income," Renzello said. "The law put us out of business." 90 percent of her customers were smokers. Bart's Bar/Restaurant Closed 100% 100% Louisville CO Bart's had been in operation for nearly 30 years. Gold Mine Restaraunt Bar/Restaraunt Not Yet 50% 50% 2 Fall River MA "There should be places for both the smoker and nonsmoker. I do not smoke but you are killing our business!!! " Buffalo Wings and Beer Bar/Restruant Not Yet 50% Gaithersburg MD Gentleman Jim's Restaurant Not Yet 40% Gaithersburg MD J.J. Muldoon's Bar/Restaurant Not Yet 20% Gaithersburg MD Middlebrook Restaurant and Lounge Bar/Restaurant Not Yet 50% Germantown MD "I'm so bitter today because I have worked too hard to keep this business going. It's just not fair." Pelican Pete's Restaurant Not Yet 60% Germantown MD Tommy Joe's Restaurant Restruant Not Yet 30% Bethesda MD Nutshell Tavern Tavern Closed 100% 100% Biddeford ME Village Variety Closed 100% Fryeburg ME Grandma's Restaraunt Not Yet 33% Cloquet MN Perkins Restaraunt Not Yet 26% Duluth MN Aessa Bar/Restaurant Not Yet 35% 6 New York NY Argyle's EasyStreet Tavern Tavern Not Yet 12% Cortland NY Athens Cafe Restaurant Not Yet 55% 10 Astoria NY Blessed Sacrament Church Bingo Not Yet 50% Albany NY Brazen Head Pub Tavern Not Yet 40% Monroe NY Brown Shanty Tavern Not Yet 20% 1 Watertown NY Champions Billiards Cafe Brew Pub/Pool Hall Not Yet 33% Parkville NY Chili American Legion Post 1830 Private Club Not Yet 70% Scottsville NY Coleman's Irish Pub Bar/Restaurant Not Yet 19% 4 Syracuse NY Crossroads Steak House Restaurant Closed 100% 100% Kennedy NY Delmar Sportsman's Tavern Tavern Not Yet 30% 1 Massena NY "We had hoped...nonsmokers who haven't been frequenting taverns due to the smoke-filled air would make up for at least some of the financial loss. Unfortunately, at least in our place, this has most definitely not happened. Our sales are at an all time low" Desperado's Tavern Not Yet 90% Wallkill NY "I can count on my fingers the people who don't smoke who come in here. The regulars say they won't come." Dodesters Tavern Not Yet 9% Syracuse NY Eagle Beverage Company Distributor Not Yet 25% N/A Oswego NY "Deliveries to pubs and taverns have decreased substantially, greater than 25 percent." Edigan's Restaurant Closed 100% 100% Binghamton NY End Zone Bar/Restaurant Not Yet 30% 1 Liverpool NY Euzkadi Restaurant Not Yet 50% New York NY Fiddler's Green Tavern Closed 100% 100% New York NY We have just lost too many customers to this law, which I did not vote for, bar owners did not vote for, bartenders did not vote for, and the public did not vote for." Finish Line Bar/Restaurant Not Yet 40% 2 Bellerose NY Fountain Bowl Bowling Alley Not Yet 40% N/A 8 Jamestown NY Golden Rail Ale House Tavern Not Yet 75% Newburgh NY Harry's Hanover Square Bar/Restaraunt Closed 100% 100 New York NY "Overnight, we lost 60 percent of our evening bar trade. For the bar, it was the difference in profit and loss. Sales of expensive cigars had been almost as important as the sales of Scotch" Harry's had been in business for more than thirty years Holmes & Watson's Tavern Not Yet 30% Troy NY Hotel McDonald Hotel Not Yet 70% Bath NY Just One More Tavern Not Yet 30% Bath NY Liberty Lanes Bowling Not Yet 27% Camden NY Mama Lena's Restaurant Closed 100% 100% Binghamton NY Mama Lena's had been in business for more than 40 years. Mel's Place Tavern Not Yet 78% 100% Falconer NY "When we bought this place, we throught we were buying our American Dream. We ran it successfully for 10 years. Now the government is stripping us from making a living. " Middleport Inn Bar/Restaurant Closed 100% 100% 13 Middleport NY "This damn state really knows how to kill people's dreams." Millennium Restaurant Not Yet 40% 3 New York NY Nibsy's Pub Bar/Restaurant Not Yet 18% Syracuse NY Rafferty's Bar/Restaurant Not Yet 35% 2 Syracuse NY Richard's Ole Timer Bar/Restaurant Not Yet 17% 1 Clay NY Roesch's Tavern Tavern Closed 100% 100% 5 New York NY This had been a family business for more than a century Salingers Tavern Not Yet 35% 2 Rochester NY Sevens Bar Tavern Not Yet 10% Malone NY Shamrock Tavern Tavern Not Yet 50% Oswego NY "It's not right. Our livelihood is being taken away." Slade Restaurant Not Yet 40% New York NY Slick Willie's Billiard Hall Not Yet 25% Tonawanda NY Stumble Inn Tavern Closed 100% 100% Champlain NY Taylor's Trackside Bar/Restaurant Not Yet 50% Remsen NY Temple Israel Bingo Not Yet 50% Albany NY According to Herb Holland, some of the regulars told volunteers that they would abstain from playing bingo, to protest the smoking ban. He hasn't seen them since. The Lilly Pad Tavern Closed 100% 100% Falconer NY The Lodge at the Lake Inc Bar/Restaurant Not Yet 50% 1 Broadalbin NY The Loft Tavern Not Yet 30% Frewsburg NY "Our town has no attractions to draw in outsiders. We have only locals to rely on as patrons and 95% of them smoke. It will be worse when the snow sets in." The Roadhouse Tavern Not Yet 40% Brewster NY Thompson Road Tavern Bar/Restaurant Not Yet 25% Syracuse NY Village Tavern Bar/Restaurant Not Yet 10% Marcellus NY Bliss' Steak Ranch Restaurant Closed 100% 100% Eugene OR Closed after 32 years in business Doc's Pad Tavern Closed 100% 100% 24 Eugene OR "Let's face it, the economy is horrible. But for us specifically, the smoking ban was the knockout punch." The Olsen family had owned Doc's for 16 years. Max's Tavern Tavern Closed 100% 100% Eugene OR The Peacock Tavern Not Yet 40% Corvallis OR Connor owned the Peacock for years - and says it was the ban that caused him to sell the bar. He says business gross fell from $1.5 million in 1997, the year before the ban went into effect, to $900,000 last year. China One Restaurant Closed 100% 100 Round Rock TX
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An allegery is a reaction to a protein, There are no proteins in SHS thus no allergies
Anyone who has asthma is allegic to smoke as its chemicals cause constriction of the airways.
I don't doubt that people with servere asthma can be affected by SHS. However the vast majority of people who claim this are B.S.ing because these very same people never seem to have a problem when they are in places where they are exposed to the same chemicals that are in SHS in greater quantities like in a parking garage, Toll booth, campfire, bar-B-que, etc.
Second hand smoke causes asthma.
No it doesn't there are less smokers today than ever yet the number of asthma cases has skyrocketed, Meanwhile 50 years ago the numbers of smokers and places you could smoke was much higher yet asthma was almost unheard of.
And I do not have ashma but I am allergic(reactionary) to the smoke.
You don't have a reaction to Second Hand smoke what you have is a reaction to Third Hand Smoke
Why! Thank you!!!
Your a peach, and yep..........there's my SEAT!!!! :)
Listen BUCK shot! We can well afford the beer and the Black Jack AND our cigarettes, thank you. And many of us in here have learned how to make and/or buy cheaper cigarettes as well!
As for ME........I have been rolling my own for three years. A carton for under $8.00! And I am NOT paying into the gluttons down at the state house any longer. Sure, there is a surcharge, but it would take YEARS for the lawmakers to get that surcharge up to $45-$50 dollars for a bag of tobacco!!!!
Same here with me in Maine, cherinfl. All the restaurants were forced to go smoke free in 1999. Now, come January, the ANTI's with their illustrious "level playing field" will force another ban to our remaining bars/taverns.
I never set foot inside a restaurant since 1999. I stuck to the taverns that have full service menus. Now they are taking THEM away. BUT! Since they (the bars/tavern owners) did not fight for MY business, I sure as hell won't support THEIRS come January. Fork em all!
I have ask that question over and over! And I do believe you hit the nail on the head!
There is this green glowing fog in here when he comes in...............hmmmmmmmm you can almost smell it.
I love to walk around the grocery store with an unlighted cigarette and watch you "reactionary" people start slinging snot like a rodeo bull.
The first part of psychosomatic describes your type perfectly.
As to a bet; I only bet with people that I believe to be honest and I believe that you have been adequately been answered anyway.
If this is true about your children being sick, and you lost one, you have my deepest sympathies. However, smoking AND second hand smoke does NOT create asthma. There are countless studies out there that I am surprised you missed.
And if your child had asthma, why would a sane man even THINK of taking them around people who smoke? I know McDonalds has been smoke free now for YEARS!
Cold air and exercise trigger asthma
Researchers carried out a study of 97 patients from the PARA UK database - the first ever long-term study of patients with "at risk" asthma.
They found:
The findings were unveiled at a British Thoracic Society meeting.
Professor Chung, lead author of the research said: "These findings help expose some of the key risk factors for asthma sufferers and will be especially useful for those with severe asthma.
Increase in asthma
"It is important that asthmatics live their lives to the full.
"We hope this research will help improve the management of their condition and patients may plan with their asthma nurse or doctors how best to manage, or in some circumstances, avoid certain situations which may trigger an asthma attack."
 These findings help expose some of the key risk factors for asthma sufferers and will be especially useful for those with severe asthma  |
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Professor Chung, asthma expert
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"We hope that research and investment will continue into the causes and effects of severe asthma attacks in order to help the millions of sufferers in the UK."
Recent statistics from the BTS, show that just over one in 10 adults and 20% of children have doctor-diagnosed asthma.
Asthma levels in the UK have risen 14% in males and 165% in females between the 1980s and 1990s.
The research was carried out by Professor Chung, from the National Heart And Lung Institure, Professor Jon Ayres, from the University of Warwick, and Professor Ala Szczepura, from Imperial College, London.
I think any anti who tries to dismiss the findings of the U.S. Department of Energy labs at Oak Ridge, should be confronted with the question: "Are you saying that DOE researchers committed scientific fraud and that their findings on ETS exposure are untrue?"
You spend $54.79 every single day??? $20,000.00 / 365 = $54.79 per day.
No, you don't.
Could it be coincidental that maybe smoker can't afford $4.00 a pack cigs and $4.00 beers and that is why a bar goes under?
Hmmmm......you really are challenged by math and facts. In Houston cigs are $2.40 a pack and a beer in a bar is about $1.50. Both of which I can easily afford. However, I will not patronize an establishment for food or beer that does not allow smoking.
Now $54.79 EVERYDAY for meals is a bit more than I care to spend.
You do have a problem and it ain't me and it ain't smoking.
You might get a shrink to check under your hood as you really seem to have some serious issues.
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