In 1999, when the Board of Health Coalition passed the restaurant smoking ban, I believe that the business owners thought it couldn't happen to them. Well, it did. And we lost some mighty fine restaurants when they had to lay off and close down.
Now, here we are again.....facing another ban. I know we had a large group fighting this ban and are still fighting this ban. Trying to get it on the ballot come November.
But we still have to face a whole year of the smoking ban before next November's Election.
By then, we will, once again, lose more fine businesses.
The Governor of Maine is choking Maine's economy!