Re: Smoking laws

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From: Particle Man
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 00:00

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anon3c67@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Bruce Watson) wrote:

>In article <sienroe1c7.fsf@a-s.NCRMicro.NCR.COM>,
> <Kent.Dalton@symbios.com> wrote:

>>The business owner will obviously be willing
>>to do whichever the majority of customers wish. Stop being a pansy and vote
>>with your feet.

>Nope, sorry. The restaurant owner gets his/her profit from the
>last 10%. As long as the restaurant owner can get away with
>it, smoking will be allowed. In the US some 20% of adults smoke.
>The perception is that by banning smoking those 20% will be lost
>(only partly true--there are smokers who can go a few minutes
>without needing to smoke).

>Many nonsmokers are voting with their feet. When a restaurant
>goes smoke free (or a city or statewide ban is enacted) contrary
>to what the tobacco industry will want you to believe more 
>nonsmokers come back to the establishment than smokers desert
>it--resulting in a net increase in patronage.

I see.  So we dont need gov't regulation.  As soon as the secret is
out, there wont be anymore smoking restaurants.

Good.  We can drop this *smoking section* regulation right now, huh?

- Particle Man

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From: SipePL@po5.pl.unisys.com (Particle Man)
Subject: Re: Smoking laws
Date: 1996/02/25
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