Sure, receipts are off $2,000 a weekend (%?), but it's the economy stupid, not the smoking ban. The same store sales at almost all retail stores, Pennys, Target, etc., are down as well.
I can't wait until we have a smoking ban. There are some places that I like but don't go to now because the smoke makes it intolerable. Of course, some of these places have gone out of business in recent months.
These whiners should recognize, as well, that their raising the price of drinks while "allowing" smoking has also hurt their business. Check it out; they'll say "our costs have gone up." What they've done is simply figure that a guy with one controlling addiction will certainly pay extra for a place where he can be slave to the first addiction while practising a second.
The economy my arse. You liberals are all alike! Try reading some research once-in-awhile!
That may be partially true for a state the size of California - but it is far from the reality of what has been happening in the past 6 weeks in Delaware.
At the most it is only a 35 mile drive to a another state that does not have the onerous ban that Delaware has.
I stopped in a tavern just over the state line in Maryland on Friday afternoon. We were talking with some of the regulars and the owner/bartender. There weekend business has more than doubled since Thanksgiving, when the ban went into effect in Delaware.
I've heard similar stories from bars and restaurants all along the Maryland Delaware line.
And the economy has been this way for 5 years, hasn't it? /sarcasm