[nanny]

It should be up to the business owner if he/she wants to allow smoking.

Dallas is in trouble, money-wise, and what do they do - vote a smoking ban.

I would like to have seen smokers get together, buy media time and announce they would not spend a nickle in Dallas during Christmas. If they would have just taken their business to other towns without the restrictive laws, it would have made a difference. Unfortunately, Americans do not fight back. WE just sit and take it, anything the want to dish out.

[Republic of Texas]

Dallas City Council put that vote on the ban off until 2003 because there was a beginning groundswell of negative information. You know, things like, people losing jobs, a worsoning economy, ect... Apparently, hurting the economy will be a good idea NEXT year.