www.bewet.fora.pl

kenyarichieh

The state won a stay of the ruling so it can continue enforcing the smoking ban.
“We think the law will be upheld,” said Jen House,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Health. “Ohio voters approved this in 2006 and we believe this is what they want.”
Bar owners disagree. Many would prefer to pay $250 or $500 a year for a special license that allows for smoking in establishments where alcohol sales are the primary source of revenue. Right now, Ohio’s only exemption is on outdoor patios of bars and restaurants, and specialty tobacco shops. When three casinos open in a couple of years, in Cincinnati, Cleveland and Toledo,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the smoking ban also is to apply to them. Michigan’s exemptions include the gaming floors of Detroit’s three casinos,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and cigar bars.
“They haven’t fined one individual,” said Krieger. “But they want my little barmaid to go after a 300-pound guy who’s smoking.”
An upside in Illinois
Unlike Michigan,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the gaming floors of Illinois’ nine casinos were not exempted from the state’s smoking ban.
Their combined revenues fell 21% in the first year of the smoking ban, said Tom Swoik, executive director of the Illinois Casino and Gaming Association. That trend continued in 2009 and this year, though not as dramatically.
Swoik said the weak economy was partly to blame, but said most of the decrease was because of the smoking ban, which sent some gamblers to Indiana and Missouri casinos where smoking is allowed.
Joe Shanahan owns Metro,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], one of Chicago’s best-known music halls with a bar near Wrigley Field. He said the ban brought in new, non-smoking customers, and prompted many of his 100 employees to stop or cut back smoking — a change that reduced illnesses.
“I thought at one time it would really affect our business, but I feel it’s helped a little bit,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],” said Shanahan, an ex-smoker.