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Originally posted by bilmore
There's a third group, though, that ends up being inadequately represented - the employees who have to inhale the stuff for eight to ten hours per day. I know that, at least where I am, that has been the main driving force behind attempts at bans.
I smoke like a fish ("smokeyfish"?) and would hate to sit in a non-smoking bar, but I do understand that I'm sitting in someone's workplace, and OSHA doesn't allow me to release much smaller concentrations of lesser bad things in the normal work setting, so the cig smoke ban doesn't strike me as an overreach.
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Really? I find this surprising from a "free-market" guy like you. It seems to me that most of the bartenders/servers I know either smoke themselves or are aware, nay expect that it is one of the incidents of the job. I know it was that way when I used to tend bar. I don't think I've ever heard of the workers being the driving force behind such a thing, especially since it likely means they'll wind up with far fewer tips. Who drove the ban in NY?
spooky(I know, I know -- it's not the politics board)fish
FWIW, I drink like a hobbit.
