[ErnBatavia]

I'll tell ya one thing...the no smoking even in open air restaurants is gonna hurt 'em....a very large percentage of Honolulu restaurants are open air, and an even larger percentage of their turistas are Japanese - and these people indeed smoke.

I guess the powers that be have forgotten the gentle trade winds that are pretty much constant over there....second hand smoke isn't going to be an issue.

[SheLion]

I'll tell ya one thing...the no smoking even in open air restaurants is gonna hurt 'em....a very large percentage of Honolulu restaurants are open air, and an even larger percentage of their turistas are Japanese - and these people indeed smoke.

I guess the powers that be have forgotten the gentle trade winds that are pretty much constant over there....second hand smoke isn't going to be an issue.

That's what it is when you get a few power hungry idiots on the City Councils.  Instead of working for the city, they turn around and want to RUN the city.

And the trade winds are always going.  You are right.  And there is no reason on earth why they ban smoking on the patio's and outside.  Just another way to control people who use a legal commodity!

And that one idiot states that maybe this will help people quit.  Who the hell is she to tell any of us to quit using a legal commodity!  Cigarettes have been around for a long, long time.  I bet she won't  have the nerve to tell the Celebrities not to smoke when THEY visit the Island!

I'll tell ya one thing...the no smoking even in open air restaurants is gonna hurt 'em....a very large percentage of Honolulu restaurants are open air, and an even larger percentage of their turistas are Japanese - and these people indeed smoke.

I guess the powers that be have forgotten the gentle trade winds that are pretty much constant over there....second hand smoke isn't going to be an issue.

That's what it is when you get a few power hungry idiots on the City Councils.  Instead of working for the city, they turn around and want to RUN the city.

And the trade winds are always going.  You are right.  And there is no reason on earth why they ban smoking on the patio's and outside.  Just another way to control people who use a legal commodity!

And that one idiot states that maybe this will help people quit.  Who the hell is she to tell any of us to quit using a legal commodity!  Cigarettes have been around for a long, long time.  I bet she won't  have the nerve to tell the Celebrities not to smoke when THEY visit the Island!

[SheLion]

an even larger percentage of their turistas are Japanese - and these people indeed smoke.

When New York City was forced into a smoking ban, all the Japanese business men were wondering where they could go for their meetings now.  They smoke, and I wonder to this day, if they can STILL smoke when they come for meetings in NYC.  Who is going to tell them NOT to smoke??!!

But now they will be hit again with a smoking ban in Hawaii.  These forced smoking bans on private businesses make no sense and I am truly surprised that the business owners just sit quietly and let them come.