“The smoking ban is killing bar and the live music business here in Ohio.”
While smoking itself is killing smokers and non-smokers alike.
That being said, I do not like the government having the power to tell a private business how to run its operations, and what it can an cannot do. I prefer the individual business owner deciding what they want to do with their businesses. I, for one, would regularly patronize a business — especially a bar — that voluntarily issued a no smoking policy.
I have bladder cancer, and from everything I’ve read and have been told, by doctors and therapists and almost every other health care professional, exposure to cigarette smoke is the number one cause of bladder cancer. And, oh, I don’t smoke. And I don’t work around industrial solvents (which is another risk factor, but not as great as smoking).
The information from is anecdotal. Did your doctors point you to research on second hand smoke?