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Originally Posted by Lak
Also, a thought on establishment-based laws (ie: any bar-owner should be able to choose whether thier place it non smoking or not).
This sounds perfectly reasonable, but in reality, it's a poor business decision. You could have a non-smoking establishment, but your patron numbers would more than likely dwindle, especially if other bars in town allowed smoking. Eventually the owner would be forced to allow smoking to bring business back.
Or maybe that's not what would happen... just a thought.
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this is why you have demographics
a business can tell if more of it's income is from smoker's or non-smoker's and adjust accordingly. If I have a business that makes more on the regular dining crowd then I'm not going to sweat going to non-smoking. However, if a large portion of my income comes from smokers then in the current state of affairs I'm going to be SOL. So I agree with the fact that a business (especially private) should have the final say so in whether or not to allow smoking in their establishment. It makes it easier on everyone. I think you'd find it's split down the middle if you allowed businesses to do that. You'd have 50% for non and 50% for smoking. Of course this is a dream but one's still allowed to do that right?