[Vision2020] Public Smoking

[TIM RIGSBY]

Will business be lost to other locales?  Pullman and all of WA is smoke free, isn't it?  I guess maybe the college kids and other patrons who smoke could drive to Troy, Lewiston, Genesse, Potlatch, or elsewhere.  Risk a DUI though, I doubt it.

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From: coolerfixer at roadrunner.com
To: fotopro63 at hotmail.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:52:44 -0700
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Public Smoking










Man do I wish I had a "9 to 5" schedule. I have spent many 
an evening in bars, taverns (hmmm,  maybe I should reword that) and 
restaurants. In this trade, you go when you're called. The point is, the 
simplistic answer is not realistic. I don't know what the answer is. Yes Kai, it 
was dismissive, and you still own the straw man, my answer is based in reality. 
I'm not going to give you a business lesson on the daily activities in a bar or 
restaurant, I'll just leave it as far more people visit on a daily basis than 
you might imagine.
 
 Personally though, I think controlling smoking at 
the city level is a stupid, overreaching idea. No continuity with the rest of 
Idaho will lead to unnecessary costs and revenue losses as the smokers frequent 
other locales.
 
Mike DeLeve'

----- Original Message ----- 

  From: 
  Kai 
  Eiselein 
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 11:22 
  PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Public 
  Smoking
  
 I actually excpected an answer like 
  Mike's.
 
So, how often are "others" in a bar during the 
  bar's "operating hours"? They don't operate on a "9-5" schedule.
Most, if 
  not all, of the maintainance, repairs and deliveries are made while the 
  joint is closed.
So, it would seem that Mike's response is the true "straw 
  man".
 
There was nothing dismissive, people were whining about 
  those who are employed at smoking establishments. I made a reasonable 
  suggestion.
 
 
 
 


  
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