Reply #71: Oh dear. [View All]

[dmallind]

CA and NY are what literate people call EXAMPLES. Look at a list of smoking bans for the full list. It is quite extensive, and close equivalents to fictional bar types exist in all smoking ban areas too (apparently you haven't visited either NY or CA much if you doubt that). I lived in the midwest for 17 of my 19 years in thsi country incidentally. The bar scene is much the same, with a wide variety of places in all areas.

If you cannot see the irony in "that much" when I flat out state in the sentence above that receipts either went up or stayed static, I can't help that.

Personally I don't think cainos should be an exception. Why is that such a deft syllogism? They are a public accommodation and should be held to the same rules. Happy? I'm not much of a casino goer so you won't see man examples on that front from me, but that's irrelevant. ETS is a health risk - a serious one. Everywhere. In cluding casinos.

I don;t know why the hell you thiink nonsmokers follow smokers. I've never seen that happen en masse personally - that's why I was asking. Couples maybe where one smokes and the other doesn't - but even there most of the time I see the nonsmoking one stay in to keep an eye on seats/drinks. I have certainly never seen this as crowd behavior. You brought it up as a truism. You explain why.

You really have a problem with analogy don't you? And irony.