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Article #2443Re: Smoking laws
From: Bruce Watson
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 00:00
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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.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 100a20,fb0378078eb6a8d7 X-Google-Attributes: gid100a20,public X-Google-Thread: fb93b,fb0378078eb6a8d7 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb93b,public X-Google-Thread: 107e5d,fb0378078eb6a8d7 X-Google-Attributes: gid107e5d,public X-Google-Thread: 1073ca,9b80ed2560fb3340 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073ca,public X-Google-Thread: f49ec,9b80ed2560fb3340 X-Google-Attributes: gidf49ec,public X-Google-Thread: 10607c,fb0378078eb6a8d7 X-Google-Attributes: gid10607c,public X-Google-Thread: f5696,fb0378078eb6a8d7 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5696,public X-Google-Thread: 10df74,a11bf69f57fb2ca4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10df74,public From: anon3c67@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Bruce Watson) Subject: Re: Smoking laws Date: 1996/02/24 Message-ID: <4gngue$f32@nyx10.cs.du.edu> X-Deja-AN: 140874159 references: <4g4rq3$1lt@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca> <4g5k3a$6lp@lace.colorado.edu> <goluboff.824602893@rmchep.Colorado.EDU> <sienroe1c7.fsf@a-s.NCRMicro.NCR.COM> organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation newsgroups: sci.energy,sci.environment,boulder.general,co.general,rec.drugs.cannabis,can.talk.smoking,alt.smokers,ca.environment,ca.politics,alt.smokers.cough,alt.society.neutopia,misc.legal