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Dad,
Well if your right, why not just let the market make the determination? Any place that wants to allow smoking can, but they have to put a big sign out front saying "smoking is allowed."
Then if the non-smokers want to go elsewhere, where smoking is prohibited, they can. If non-smoking is as popular as you claim the smoking establishments will go out of business or convert to non-smoking. There were plenty of non-smoking restaurants in RI before the ban went into effect.
IMHO its just another step up the ladder for the anti-tobbaco nazis.
Worst of all, why doesn't it affect Loncoln Park and Newport grand? Answer, beacuse the state knows it will decrese revenues at places that are entirely non-smoking and they don't want that affecting their gambling revenue.
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