The reaction among restaurant and bar owners is pretty much the same as it was here in Ohio we our nicotine Nazi's banned smoking. They realize that they, like restaurant & bar owners here, will soon see a decline in business and ultimately their profit.
In France where over 60% of our floppy hatted friends smoke, they were just thrilled out of their carcinogen filled lungs!
Maybe us people who smoke should just start our own country....
- Ireland banned smoking in all enclosed spaces in 2004.
- The UK followed with a ban.
- Italy, Malta, Sweden, Estonia and Finland all have bans but allow smoking in special closed sections.
- Belgium, Lithuania, Spain, Cyprus, Slovenia and the Netherlands all have bans but make exceptions for certain parts of the hospitality sector.
- Germany, Portugal and France are the latest countries to introduce bans.
Yay! More smoking bans! Less unhealthy smoke!
ReplyDeleteAnon - thanks for reading and taking the time to comment.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they should like in Ohio... put higher taxes on them to build things that the average guy who smokes cannot afford to go. Then in able to go to one of these places or takes his kid to a ball game he must take a second mortgage on his house to afford it!
Of course he will not be allowed to smoke because it will offend the noses of the people that did nothing for the stadium that was built with his money.
Raise the taxes higher we can use the money for an arts & culture levy. We need an arts levy, if we had more art & culture stuff the record number of people getting killed in Cleveland. I'm sure many of them would not have died had their killers ever laid eyes on a Van Gogh. How can you kill someone after looking at Ole VG?
Of course who cares about the business these smoking bans kill.
Damn, I almost forgot! The state needs money... where do they get it - taxes on cigarettes.
Then after all this projected tax money from the sale of cigarettes gets gobbled up for every political project that can be thought of, outlaw them damn nasty cigarettes!
Only makes sense to me - ban the item you propose to raise money on! Brilliant Idea!
That being said anon... I have something to say -
Yay! you're an idiot!
More idiot bans! Yay! less unhealthy idiots!