Second Hand Smoke

[lord_carbo]

Originally Posted by banditcom

Oh how I'd love to go to a bar that makes everyone smoke outside... No more having to take a shower after you get home.

Or, you know, don't go to a bar.

The bar market obviously attracts to smokers and people who would go to bars regardless of there being smokers, so in that sense, it's good business sense to allow smoking in bars. Would not allowing smoking improve the quality? Perhaps, but then it would be good business sense to disallow it in their bar. If you can't find a bar in your area that doesn't disallow smokers, well, then you're in the wrong crowd. The few in the bar scene who cannot tolerate smoking are removed for it is an unfavorable trait (via natural selection), so thus smoking is part of it.

It's a package deal. Smoking goes with bars. It's like walking into Hot Topic and wanting to hear Kenny G on the corporate radio. Yeah, I'm sure most of the HT people would still go there if they played Kenny G on the corporate radio, seeing as this is a less drastic example, but it's like a slice down the wrist for those people (literally, not sparing any emo jokes) -- it's part of the package for the majority.

I'm sure you would love to smoke at a bar that doesn't allow smokers. And if a lot of people did, I'm sure it would be good business to have a bar which bans them in your area.