Where does eveyone stand on smoking bans?

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Originally Posted by Spott

They did the same thing here in Florida about 5 years ago and restaurants are still just as packed as they were before. A couple of restaurants stopped serving food to accommodate smokers. The only thing that is going to keep people from going out to eat are real economic issues. As long as people have money, they will still go out to eat/drink.

Now maybe the restaurants in KC can try and figure out that sweet tea thing.

They banned smoking in ALL public places (bars and resturants).

In fact, it was interesting, because the tobacco companies financed an intersting effort to impact the election.

I was sure that they were going to win with it.

The citizens groups put the first ballot iniative on that said ban all smoking in public places including bars.

The tobacco companies themselves then came in and sponsored a 2nd ballot initiative that put a legal in bars, but not resturants option on the ballot.

They were hoping to dilute the fist one with the 2nd one.

They were effectively giving up on resturaunts. I guess that wasn't a big deal at all for them.

I was sure that this was going to work, but it didn't.

I think both passed overwhelmingly (like 70+% each) and thus the stricter one took effect anyway (because it got more votes anyway).