smoking, how do you feel about public bans?

Question

i work in a bar and so i'm curious as to how banning smoking would hurt our business. i agree that people who do not smoke should be able to go out and enjoy a night without being around smoke unwillingly...but then...is there a better solution? your thoughts?

Answer 1

i am a smoker and as long as i can go outside to smoke i have no problem in letting those who don't smoke have the clean air. but if they ban me from smoking within 50 of the building then there is a problem.(if I'm wrong let me know) but if I'm wright drunk drivers kill more people than second hand smoke does.

Answer 2

There is a better solution. Perhaps allow the owners of the establishments to decide whether they should be smoking or non-smoking. If the non-smokers pressure the owner enough, perhaps they can get the owner to enact a ban on smoking in his establishment. If the non-smokers can not get the owner to make it non-smoking, then maybe they should open their own establishment; think of all the potential business that the only (first) non-smoking bar would have.

Do I agree with a smoking ban in public places? No, I think it is the government infringing too much on business. If you look around most bars, most people there are smokers. On a rough guess, about half would do something where they could smoke if they can not smoke in a bar.

Talk to some bar owners in the citys that have smoking bans in effect, many of them have lost business over it and many will wait until later in the evening and break out the ashtrays. I have seen it firsthand in many of the bigger citys. They know that smokers like to smoke when they drink and would prefer to have happy customers.

Answer 3

Truthfully, I think it shouldn't be allowed in some places while others it doesn't make sense to ban. I am an avid anti smoker so that says a lot for me to even accept it anywhere. However, I think people should be allowed to go places without being forced to be around cancer sticks due to others. Eating establishments, Places where kids belong, family places, etc... lose the smokes!! Bars..... that's another story. folks go there to relax and unwind and unfortunately that includes smoking for some. I personally think they should have a separate room though so the smoke doesn't travel or have one of those systems that clear the air.

It is illegal where I live so I know what it does to businesses like bars. They got hurt by it. Business dropped in a lot of them and some closed.

So, after my long ramble.... some places need to be banned from smoking but not all....There are too many things getting banned and quite frankly in my opinion.....If you ban everything in the US then there really isn't anything left that is what made this country so great..... freedoms!!

Answer 4

I smoke and i think its an injustice against our freedom or choice to ban smoking. Noone is twisting anyones arm to walk into a smoke filled bar or restraunt.

heres more insight>

we are debating the wrong questions; in this case, whether secondhand smoke is good or bad. Most people would agree it's bad, even if there is differing opinion as to what extent. But a more important, if not largely overlooked question is: Who decides which legal and consensual activities should be allowed on privately owned property, the property owner or the government?

For good or ill, smoking is perfectly legal for adults. Many of us consider smoking to be a nasty habit, and rightfully so, but the thought of government trying to regulate that habit should be considered frightening. If politically unpopular, yet otherwise legal activities such as smoking can be outlawed, what could be next? We can easily walk away from a smoke-filled bar or restaurant; can we so easily walk away from our civil liberties?

Whether the public favors a smoking ban is irrelevant, and whatever economic impact such a ban may or may not have is equally irrelevant. What is relevant is whether government has a right to interfere in the operation of a private business when no illegal activity is taking place, or has been.

Answer 5

Well where I live it's now banned in ever type of building, bars and restaurants. At first the bars took a little hit but eventually the smokers came back, cause they could smoke outside or on the heated patio's. Heck the bar is a big social place for many and no matter what they will always give in and come back for the music, booze, and booty.

Answer 6

Thrilled!!

I'm more inclined to go out now that it's banned. In Florida, the rule was if you served food...like lunch or dinner..you had to ban smokers. If you only served bar snacks...you didn't.

Bars that didn't want to ban smokers, quit serving meals. The others enforced the smoking ban. None of the bars that have enforced the ban have seen a fall in business based on the reports, and the people I know who work in them, or go there.

Answer 7

I think the ban of smoking in public areas is very good. Smoking causes second hand smoke so you are not harming just yourself but others around you. Second hand smoke has been discovered to be one of the leading factors in the cause of breast cancer...which sucks because a majority of my family has suffered second hand smoke and ended up with breast cancer. In my eyes smoking in public places is going against a core democratic value for those of us who don't care to be exposed to all the toxins. So I think you could get more or less business depending on how many people care enough about others.

Answer 8

even as I comprehend the prejudice to those who smoke, i need to assert as an asthmatic and a non-smoker that I help the ban in some public places. i'm from the U. S. (do not comprehend once you're speaking about the united kingdom), so right here one won't be able to smoke in eating places, in some bars on the discretion of the owner, and interior of 20ft of a public construction. i in my opinion locate it sensible. even as I comprehend this is an habit, i believe that the extra obstacles positioned on those who smoke the extra efficient. this is like letting an alcoholic drink and be rowdy everywhere they're, they're going to for sure difficulty someone with their habit as they are going to result others round them. Smoking is growing extra taboo because each individual is stricken by it. Frankly it stinks and this is an extremely unattractive and undesirable habit. The extra lives we may be able to maintain by banning it the extra efficient. Lung maximum cancers is a negative aspect to stay by because it oral maximum cancers, emphasema, and persistent bronchitis. i have watched kinfolk wade through by the detrimental outcomes of smoking and this is unneccessary to die earlier some time only for a stupid ciggarette.

Answer 9

I don't agree with outright bans. I support bans for public buildings, city/county buildings, court houses, places where people have to go. I do not agree with bans in bars or restaurants. As far as I am concerned, bars and restaurants are private property, so they should not be forced to not allow smoking. If the owner doesn't want smoking, that's his/her choice. If you're in a bar, your health is obviously not your top priority anyway.

Answer 10

I live in Ny, the first banned state and I am soo happy that the smokers must go outside. My clothes no longer smell like smoke when I leave a bar. Smoking is a choice, and second-hand smoking is not! I think all states should institute the ban in bars and restaurants.

Answer 11

My mother does smoke, but I would prefer to go out to a restaurants and not have anyone around smoke. Smoking is already banned in public area in California, so everyone would just be doing what they have to do.