It affects businesses here and this is how: In the city of Dallas (or I think Dallas County actually) it's no longer legal to smoke in resturaunts. So ... there's this huge exodus anywhere that's near a county border to go eat at resturaunts in a neighboring county. It doesn't really affect the resturaunts nearer the middle of Dallas county, like downtown it doesn't matter. But anywhere close to the border there's been a dip in revenues for resturaunts just inside the county and a rise in revenues for resturaunts just outside the county -- even when it's the same resturaunt like when it's a chain like Chillis or Bennigans.
Personally I don't think people should be prohibited from smoking themselves to death if they want, but by the same token, I don't think most drugs should be only by prescription... I think if people want to smoke, spit or swallow themselves into the grave or worse they should be allowed. Second hand smoke or no -- nobody forces you to avoid non-smoking resturaunts, etc. although I generally thing every business should try to provide designated smoking areas and at least attempt to get smokers to congregate there for courtesy's sake if nothing else. > Of course businesses are owned by people. Really, I'm > waiting for > somebody to explain to me how stopping smoking in a > restaurant is going > to hurt a particular business if it's done unilaterally. > And besides > that, people don't go to a restaurant to smoke, they go to > eat. Why > must the smokers smoke in a restaurant? I don't go into > the kitchen to > piss on the floor. > Matthew Small > IT Director > Showstopper American Dance Championships > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 843-357-1847 > -----Original Message----- > From: jon hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 5:27 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: woo hoo > Since when did businesses stop being owned by people? Last > I > checked...America still was a capitalist nation. > -- > jon > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tuesday, July 1, 2003, 4:36:24 PM, you wrote: > MS> I think we should remove the way of thinking "We're > telling a > business > MS> what they can and cannot do" to "We're telling people > that they > can't > MS> affect other people without their permission". The > business doesn't > MS> smoke, people do, and therefore the law only is > affecting people, > not > MS> businesses. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~| > Archives: > http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 > Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index. > cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 > This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by > CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion > Hosting. > http://www.cfhosting.com > Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/uns > ubscribe.cfm?user=633.558.5 s. isaac dealey 972-490-6624 new epoch http://www.turnkey.to lead architect, tapestry cms http://products.turnkey.to tapestry api is opensource http://www.turnkey.to/tapi certified advanced coldfusion 5 developer http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=21816 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
