Reply #64: A total ban is the only "viable" solution

[SoCalDem]

Out here, when the bans started, local businesses wanted the right to choose, but it was decided that the bars & restaurants that chose to allow smoking would "steal business" away from the ones who chose to be smoke-free, so the only option was to ban it altogether, and to issue fines from the smoking-police.

If a bar owner smokes, and all his employees smoke too...and the customers too, they all just have to quit, or do what many have done here.. They bought big screens for home & buy their own beer at the store:)

Smaller bars just closed up if they lost their customers, and the others adapted..or died.

Bars that wanted to allow smoking, did not mind that others would be smoke-free, but the converse was not true.

We are both smokers in this household, and a positive effect for us has been the fact that we no longer have to wait in line to get seated at restaurants...of course some of our favorite places have closed down.

Now if the nannies could only force cars to stop polluting my air :)