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Updated: 6:06 PM Aug 4, 2008
Bar Owners Protest Smoking Ban
A group of bar owners spent Monday afternoon protesting Kanawha County's smoking ban.
Posted: 11:57 AM Aug 4, 2008Reporter: Anna Baxter Email Address: anna.baxter@wsaz.com |
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- A group of bar owners spent Monday afternoon protesting Kanawha County's smoking ban.
The group walked from the Fifth Quarter Steakhouse to the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department on Lee Street.
The county's new smoking ban went into effect July 1. The ban prohibits smoking in most public places including bars and gambling parlors.
Since the ban went into effect, bar owners have complained it has devastated their businesses. In fact, some bar owners say their profits are down by nearly 50 percent.
Under the new ban, if people are caught smoking inside the bars, the bar owners face fines.
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Posted by: Jake
on Dec 10, 2008 at 05:50 PM
Well Im a bar owner and recently became a distributor for this company called Crown7. Crown7 has invented a product to beat the bans. So now I can let my customers smoke these in the bar and not get in trouble. This company has saved my business and I couldn't be more thankful. www.Crown7.com
Posted by: cheryl
on Oct 31, 2008 at 07:11 AM
I can understand no smoking in a family based business, but a bar is an adult choice, this is one more example of our choices being controlled. The most simple answere to this is, to post warnings out side the door like "microwae in use" post "smoking establishment" let the adults make there decision on to go in or not. If there are that many non smokers that like to go to bars, here's an idea for non smoking bar owners. let them build there own non smoking bar. give people a choice, not demand control. It's not a life necessity to go to a bar, it's there choice.
Posted by: Elna
on Sep 9, 2008 at 08:33 AM
Who really cares if people smoke in bars? I don't smoke or drink or go in bars; Poeple that go in bars can drink but they can't smoke? Many people work in gambling places that are allergic to smoke..you can gamble without smoking..so I do understand some places for no smoking...Let the people in bars finish the job faster, smoke away!!!
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