[qam1]

You ask around after the smoking ban went into affect and tons of non-smokers told of their troubles with smokers before and how great it is now. It has been a blessing.

Yeah sure, Then what was the purpose of that article? Are you trying to say all the people in that article are lying?

[A CA Guy]

Anybody can lose business as their place gets old in California.
This state has been getting less and less tolerant of older buildings.

I don't think they are out-right liars in the article. I think they have no understanding that their places went down because of normal market place happenings and fewer people go to old fashioned bars in CA these days.