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Originally Posted by Wes Mantooth
Personally I like the way they handled the issue here in Tennessee. You can have a smoking establishment but only if you cater to an over 21 clientele and have a sign stating the business is a smoking establishment. If a business owner wants to cater to smokers he can by simply selling beer and carding at the door and customers can decide weather or not they want to go inside. Winners all around! YAY!
I'd be curious also to see what kind of effect these laws have on business. I remeber when they passed the no smoking law in Maine in the late 90's there were a lot of small bars and diners that went under but I've never read any stats on the real numbers and overall effect one way or the other.
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Thanks to the puritan way Charlotte treats alcohol, smoking IS allowed in bars, but they're not bars. They're clubs that you pay a dollar to join. This makes them private buildings. This also is a totally messed up way to do this because there's also a WHOLE lot of drug dealing in these private clubs because they're basically houses to the police. Not some place they might drop by just to make sure things are on the up and up.
Virginia looked at the signage idea. I don't remember if they ever passed that though. It seems simple enough. I would worry that every bar would go with signage and allow smoking, but then I only go to the DC bars.