john crino wrote:As an owner of a non-smoking drinking establishment in Lakewood I ask, Why are the people who advocate this ban on smoking not in my establishment enjoying a smoke-free environment? Are these folks going to come out to the happy hours in Lakewood if this passes?
For the record,I do not agree with the smoking ban. I feel it is bad for Lakewood businesses and also the ban itself is a lifestyle ban. If bar workers themselves organized the proposal for their own benefit that would seem more supportable. My establishment is non-smoking for the sake of the art on the walls and the fact that I am allergic to cig. smoke,otherwise people smoking is none of my concern. For the sake of Lakewood economy I hope this ban done not pass.
This is clearly one of the problems of this issue as well. I am a lifelong resident of Lakewood and I had no idea such a non-smoking adult beverage establishment existed in the city. I am a person who would frequent such a place, but I wrongly assumed no such place existed in Lakewood.
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) are staffed with twenty-somethings who are either working their ways through school or are sorting out what they want to do for a career later on. Those folks do have the choice to work someplace else. I understand, though, that bartending and waiting tables is a career, as well, and if we have OSHA rules to protect us from all sorts of crazy contingencies in our places of employ, then, of course, bartenders and waiters/waitresses should have similar considerations regarding safe air.
