Nanny State PING!
May they enjoy the loss of tax dollars from the lack of taxable revenue.
I bet if you were to ask the 54% of the people who voted for the ban if they thought businesses would have to close down because of the vote, close to 1/3rd would claim that they didn't think it would have any economic impact at all.
Welcome to a society full of adults without any common sense whatsoever.
He should have tried to hold on a little longer. The jugheads will be legalizing and taxing “the hell” out of recreational medical marijuana and people will be able to smoke in his bar again.
If you don’t want to patronize bars that allow smoking don’t patronize bars that allow smoking.
Perhaps it’s time for a smoke-in?
I was in Helena, MT many years ago just after they’d passed a similar no smoking law. I walked into an old downtown bar, and everyone there was smoking. I asked the bartender about that, and he said that the mayor and city council were welcome to come in, but they hadn’t ever before, and he didn’t expect they ever would. It turned out that the police chief said he would rather solve crimes than go around finding people sneaking a smoke.
I am sorry to hear that the communists have made that much headway in Wyoming.
That would make sense as he did it voluntarily before the ban. Just think of all the folks that would like to go to a place without a bunch of smoke in their faces all night. Probably enough for a few other places to call themselves smoke free and bring in some new customers.
As it is now with the state/city getting involved, everyone loses.
I’m skeptical that it was necessarily the smoking ban. Is every other bar in town closing too? Cigarettes have been banned in here for about 20 years now and plenty are still in business. Bars close all the time for reasons other than smoking bans. Maybe they should have called Bar Rescue.
No sympathy. My dad died of tobacco-caused cancer this past summer—still smoking while on ventilator. Sandbar’s loss or excuse that they could not find a way to stay in business without smoking. Others do fine.
Smoking aside. If this bar/restaurant is closing after only one month of the new smoking ban then it was getting ready to close soon anyway.
I was just there in August passing through. The steakhouse I stopped in for dinner wasn’t very busy and the bartender said that since the oil took a dive; all the eateries in town were slow.
This is much more than just a smoking ban issue.
Next up: A vote on making the mayor's house into a half-way house for drug addicts and sex offenders. If it passes, he has no right to complain. I mean, he can be sorry, but it will have been decided by the voters, right?
Smoking (as if the slope was not already slippery enough) is where we the people poured grease down the slope, it took many years to come to fruition, now anything goes into the cauldron of burning liberties sitting at the bottom of freedoms mountain.
Those who would sacrifice liberty for safety deserve neither.