[Tumbleweed_Connection]

The only focus is to increase spending. What are the consequences to business? If business is hurt, what affects will that have? What will be the ultimate result for spending?

[Free the USA]

Index Bump

[steve50]

Most places that have tried it have seen loss of jobs and revenue to small business. I wonder if a "private club" with a small one time membership fee could be a way around the bans?

[Oschisms]

The End of the Smoky Bar

The Beginning of Thousands of Drunks Smoking Outside Bars, Disturbing the Pedestrians and Upstairs Neighbors.

[SoDak]

Now that various government entities have figured out how to engineer social change with cigarettes, look for more coming. Once cigarette smoking is stamped out, they'll grow bored and look for new issues. I find government intrusion via tobacco to be an extremely scary phenomenon. It's not just NY either, SD passed a ban on restaurant smoking this year. We'll get where NY is in a few years.

[Lexington Green]

We don't care what nanny don't allow
We gonna smoke those coffin nails anyhow

[E Rocc]

While most of the workers in these establishments and their nonsmoking customers breathe a sigh of relief

Horsemodell. I'd guess that most bartenders smoke. Just about every one of ours does.

-Eric

[Protagoras]

More proof that both parties attack property rights when it suits their purposes.

It ain't about smokin' folks.