Blame smoking ban for bar closings and lost jobs

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5:18 PM Thursday, March 18, 2010

The reduction in smoking complaints against bars has nothing to do with better compliance. Fewer bars means fewer complaints.

The overwhelming majority of bar patrons are smokers, and it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that they’ll quit going to bars before they’ll quit smoking.

One need only travel the streets of East Dayton to find a dozen of these establishments that have closed since the smoking ban took effect, thereby depriving the owners of their livelihood and their employees of their wages.

Mike McDonald

Dayton

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