I qould bet the opposite - the smoker would sit in non-smoking and take breaks as needed. brian bates, macgroveland
Mike Fratto wrote:
According to the Pioneer Press both sides are negotiating a smoking ban solution. This may include a completely separate smoking area that must be sealed off from the non-smoking area.
A group of people walk into a bar, one or two smoke. Where do you think they will go? I would bet the non-smokers would acquiesce and accompany the smoker to the "smoking room" This will increase that rooms occupancy and the owners will show by use statistics, not by actual smoker statistics that the set aside room was a waste of money.
Of course the issue is that a non-smoker who goes out with a known smoker has already made the decision they will accommodate the smoking. So its not a big jump to expect this group to eat in the smoking area, use a private smoking room etc.
If you think about it, non-smokers already accommodate smokers to a
degree in restaurants. I now go into restaurants where there are
plenty of room in the smoking area while the non-smokers wait for a
non-smoking table. Eventually non smokers will take a smoking area
table Just so they can eat. Of course this makes it look like the
smoking area is filled.
Mike Fratto Payne Phalen
M Charles Swope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/10/2004 2:59:12 PM >>>
In opposing the smoking ban, the owner of Costello's on Selby said that 90% of his customers were smokers. If this is the kind of information that's being used to oppose the ban it's no wonder that we will soon see it enacted. I've been in Costello's and I can assure you that less than 9 out of 10 people there are smokers.
Of course, I can see how one might imagine that 90% of the people in a bar are smoking. It only takes a few smokers to foul the air to the point where it seems that everyone is smoking. Could it be that bar owners' opposition to the ban is based on their mistaken notion that the vast majority of their customers are smokers? And how many people who do smoke in bars do so only because other people's smoke triggers their addiction and would be happy not to smoke? I know more than one person who won't go into a bar because they know they couldn't resist the urge to smoke if they were there.
Personally, I don't know why anyone would want to run a business if they thought the only way to do it was to allow a few people to not only endanger themselves but everyone around them as well.
Charlie Swope Ward 1
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