Won't cause many problems here, Lexington is surrounded by dry counties, sure they would be able to smoke, but they couldn't drink.
At 05:23 PM 7/1/2003 -0500, you wrote: >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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
