[qam1]

Some bar and restaurant owners, however, said a little more than two weeks may not be enough time to tell how much the ban will hurt businesses. Miserable weather, the holidays and the economy also may have as much to do with a sag in business as the smoking ban.

So why wasn't business sagging before the ban.

Yeah it is pretty Amazing how this "Miserable weather" just happen to start the day of the ban and by some great anomaly this bad weather is only effecting small little Delaware and not MD, Penn & NJ.

[Gabz]

Yeah it is pretty Amazing how this "Miserable weather" just happen to start the day of the ban and by some great anomaly this bad weather is only effecting small little Delaware and not MD, Penn & NJ.

Amazing, isn't it????

I can't say anything about PA or NJ because I don't choose to trravel north. But the places near the state line with MD in southern Delaware are doing a BOOMING business.

An Eagles game or a Redskins game is going to attract lots of folks to the local sports bars around here. But when you have and Eagles/Redskins game - most places are standing room only, if you can even get in the door.

I will admit there were more cars in the parking lots of the local sports bars today than last Sunday - but I still had a pick of choice parking spaces.

I can't say that about the VFW or the Elks Lodge - where smoking is permitted.