[Max McGarrity]

Flaunt/flout. Whatever. They're thumbing their noses at the nannies and permitting smoking in their bars because that's the only way they can stay in business. This was written up in the SF Chronicle a couple weeks ago. I can probably find it if necessary. In addition, this is California, and much of the state has mild weather year round. That makes outdoor patios very comfortable and virtually all of them welcome smokers.

The market WILL adjust. But it won't adjust the way the antis want it to and that won't help those people who put their hearts, souls and life savings into small restaurants and bars and lost it all because of this jihad.

[supercat]

Flaunt/flout. Whatever.

I wasn't just being pedantic; I know I've read about people who used loopholes in the law to allow smoking (and thus stay in business). My question is whether any businesses have been able to openly disobey the law while staying in business.

[If the former is true--that businesses have worked to stay narrowly within the law--then your usage of "flaunt" would be odd but perhaps correct; the wording of the sentence would suggest "flout", but I don't know if that's factually correct].