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Originally Posted by marklwood
You are not just whistlin' Dixie.
I have been in the service business (rest/bar) for the last 30 years. One of those gigs was a 10 year stint as a manager for Red Lobster. As a corporation, General Mills restaurant division was concerned about the growing nonsmoking lobby even way back then. When I was in Orlando, for training they were mining data from the sales records over a 5 year period. Since the smoking/nonsmoking sections are assigned by table number, they could get sales data separated by smoking preference. This was important to them because it could mean millions of dollars in sales every year. They either wanted to fight the legislation, or jump ahead of the market and make their restaurants nonsmoking ahead of the curve.
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And this is exactly what our (U.S.) founding fathers had in mind when they wrote the constitution. Property owners using THEIR property in a way that best suits them (as long as it does not interfere with their neighbors property rights).
All civil rights stem from property rights.We have a right to free speech on our property but not on someone elses, we have a right to keep and bare arms on our property but not on someone elses property, by the same token we have the right to demand that our property be smoke free but no one has a moral right to demand that someone else make their property smoke free.
Barring property owners from permitting smoking is just one more step down a slippery slope.
Remember, anything government can do for you, they can also do to you.
Sam