Has smoking ban increased bar buisness?

[Fugazi]

smelly cigarettes

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by StrawberryGal

Yes, because non-smokers people are able to go out and enjoy the outings instead of staying home to avoid the smoky bars and resturants. The bars and resturants are raking in more businesses/monies than it was as a "smoking" bars and resturants.

I have no problems with people who wants to smoke. It is thier rights to enjoy the bad habits just like everyone else who want to drink too much sodas, bad fatty food, nail bitings, thumb sucking, drink too much to stay drunk all the time, have 16 cats in thier house that make thier home smell so bad, etc. Everybody have thier rights.

not everyones has thier spelcheckrs, huh?

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by StrawberryGal

I really don't know. Maybe the business owners thought there are more "smokers" than non-smokers. Now, they are learning the "truth".

I agree that it makes no sense....

...but it is one of those common knowledge facts that their are more living ex smokers than there are current smokers. So, it's not a matter of truth, is it?

[StrawberryGal]

Originally Posted by Larry Gude

not everyones has thier spelcheckrs, huh?

I knew there is some words I spelled wrong. I have spelling checkers on my computer, but not in this forum.

[StrawberryGal]

Originally Posted by Larry Gude

...but it is one of those common knowledge facts that their are more living ex smokers than there are current smokers. So, it's not a matter of truth, is it?

Yeah, that's true... I know alot of people who quit smoking are now considers as "non-smokers". Some of these people said that it is hard going to places or being around people who smoke without feeling of wanting to smoke a cig. With the smoking ban in effective, these kind of people can go out and enjoy smoke-free places without wanting to "smoke" a cig. It takes a lot of will power not to smoke again after you kicked the habit for many years.

[desertrat (Premo)]

Originally Posted by MMDad

If it's true, doesn't it make you wish you'd started a chain of non-smoking bars before the ban? You could have made a killing! Oh well, too late now!

Unless, of course, a one time visit to a bar is a bit anecdotal and doesn't indicate a trend.

So if this is true someone could open a bar in a state w/o a ban and clean up!
See it happening anywhere?

[Toxick]

I wonder how a smoker's alternative - were one allowed, of course - would prosper.


And what the effect would be on surrounding establishments.

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Toxick

I wonder how a smoker's alternative - were one allowed, of course - would prosper.


And what the effect would be on surrounding establishments.

...how would bars and restraunts do for the last, oh, 2,000 years or so v. now?

[vraiblonde]

Originally Posted by StrawberryGal

I knew there is some words I spelled wrong.

Don't listen to him - like he's one to talk

[vraiblonde]

Originally Posted by Toxick

I wonder how a smoker's alternative - were one allowed, of course - would prosper.


And what the effect would be on surrounding establishments.

See, I'd like to see how that little experiment would pan out. Because bar/restaurant owners have ALWAYS had the ability to go non-smoking. There must be a reason they didn't do it.