Talk about skewing the numbers. Just because permits weren't issued doesn't mean there are "fewer RB's". Since when does "permits issued" equate to the loss of existing RB's (as you call them) . The number of "RB's" as you call them has INCREASED in my town in just the last year alone, ...and, you have to wait to get a seat....I now of NO local "RB's" or bars that have closed since the law was passed.
BTW "FF" isn't only drive-thru, they have dining area's too.
If your problem is, you can't sit through a real meal without having a cigarette, then you should look at your own shortcomings, not the government.
Maybe if smokers had shown more courtesy, rather than call it "a right" in the past, the government wouldn't have had to take the actions they have....Maybe, just maybe, selfish smokers can look at themselves as the cause of the problem...ponder that one.
I beg to disagree. If they don't have a permit, they are not in business. less permits = less businesses. I see no skewing of numbers.
Hardly "dining areas," steel tables and steel benches, lets call them what they are, a place to chow down, it is NOT dining.