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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Well, if you are considering it, please do it and go early and often to support your local bar. Bar receipts are down over 20% in NYC since the ban, and closures are already ensuing.
BR(for me, the smoking ban upside is that the bars are all empty, so I can actually have a conversation now that I'm going deaf in my old age, but I'm a non-smoker who thinks the ban is a terrible idea and it hasn't stopped the Mr. from bumming smokes off of everybody whenever we go out)C
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Banning smoking in NYC bars is like banning gambling in Vegas casinos. You go there to drink and smoke. Yeah it can be annoying and disgusting, but its part of the ambience and what did you expect anyway? This isnt california.
But the bars can take solace that an antismoking mother like DTB who I would guess probably does not have more than like two or maybe three cocktails at the most will start to hang out there. I was at one of the Ws recently and I was told I could not take my cocktail into the lobby to meet my friend. Since when is that a rule? I have stumbled into W lobbis with cocktails all over the country. Is this Bloomberg also?
