I'm of the view that we should see how it goes. When the airports first banned tobacco, one had to pass through a blue haze to get into the terminal and then a similar haze on the way out to the doors.
Maybe its my imagination, but the smoke is definitely less pronounced. And now smokers do have a designated section, as compared to any open doorway.
I was out on the board walk in Santa Monica over five years ago and I noticed no smokers. I stopped for a sandwich and asked the wait staff about it, he said the whole pier was smoke free. It was just great, and there was a crowd (on a weekday). It seemed to me people were going out and enjoying the pier and whoever the smokers were, they were just not smoking for that length of time they were out there.
Of course I know that as patterns go, there is more smoking in the north than the south, so I've always taken California models with a grain of salt, but I think we can do this very well once we get used to it. And the non smokers will have to be patient through the transition.
Best,
Laura Wittstock Southeast
On Tuesday, June 15, 2004, at 10:46 PM, Rybak, R.T. wrote:
I could use some advice from list members on ways to mitigate an unintended consequence of the proposed smoking ban:
After the ban is in place, people at a restaurant or bar who want to
smoke will presumably walk outside to light up...forming the kinds of
front door smoking gatherings you see already outside office buildings.
The groups outside bars and restaurants will probably hang around longer
because they probably don't have a boss pushing them to get inside.
On or off list: Does anyone have any thoughts about how we can address
this issue?
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