Manager said the chain has NO plans to close the smoking sections... That's wonderful news. However, when a City Council makes businesses go smoke free, and the business doesn't comply, they start giving out fines. The anti's will force a business to go smoke free one way or the other. See what I mean? That's why this has to be faught.
City Council? Exactly! Business owners and residents must recall these folks who make regulations without votes. Unless the
voters call for a ban, it shouldn't be done. When the city councils have the police power to enforce regulations made without voters, to fine and close businesses that operate in defiance of those bans--that's the same as Nazi tactics.
Here in MO there was a proposed tax increase of 55 cents a pack on cigarettes. VOTERS rejected that tax increase.