Conditions change. Businesses fail. Happens
everyday.
Why should public policy be crafted not based on
public health but on some twisted idea that every
single business must survive intact as is only sans
smoking?
Businesses that can't sustain themselves without
allowing smoking perhaps deserve to fail and be
replaced by other businesses.
Would a few bars going out of business be the end of
something of some huge value compared to the health
benefits of the ban?
I think not.
Now I have had some fond memories around some hole in
the wall bars, don't get me wrong. The only one that
went out of business that I truly mourned it's passing
had more to do with it's fate as a victim of an arson
thought to be hate crime(still under investigation) in
the city in Michigan where I attended college.
The thought of the bar being lit on fire on a back
wall while packed with people because someone hates
gay people left me said and a little cold.
These arguments that we can't loose even one business
to the ban seem like the arguments some make about
cutting unnecessary spending- think of the lost jobs!
Hey, be creative. Change your enterprise to draw
different people in the door. If you can't make it.
Find a new profession like thousands of people in this
country do all the time.
David Strand
Loring Park
--- Jeremy Wieland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
However, there are businesses that
> were crushed last
> week-end. Many of the neighborhood bars in
> Northeast Minneapolis suffered
> major financial loses. It is really important that
> people behind the
> marketing to get non-smokers out focus on more than
> just the trendy places.
> The Dakota was already smoke-free. Let's get some
> people into the small
> neighborhood joints where businesses are currently
> in danger. Walk the talk
> and spend some money. Start a non-smoking dart
> league. If you're a
> non-smoker, learn to bowl.
>
> If businesses start to go under, the ban will be
> revised, just as it was in
> Duluth. If the ban is to stay, non-smokers have to
> do a lot more than buy a
> beer once per month at Chino Latino. People have
> got to get out.
>
> Jeremy Wieland
> Northeast
> Candidate, 3rd Ward City Council
> www.jeremywieland.blogs.com
>
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