Comments on: Never trust content from “U.S. Surgeon General” https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/07/never-trust-content-from-us-surgeon-general/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:19:04 +0000 hourly 1 By: CNS https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/07/never-trust-content-from-us-surgeon-general/comment-page-1/#comment-3363 Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:19:04 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3664#comment-3363 I live in Helena, and I have seen some of the economic consequences first hand. For instance, one of the doctors that conducted the “study” stated, in a newspaper article, that once the city-wide smoking ban (since thrown out) went into effect that he and his wife could go out dancing etc., and his overall attitude was that more people would fequent the businesses that had formerly allowed smoking.

Yeah, right. A for-instance: a bar that I went to quite often went from 100+ people on friday/Saturday night to…well, one time i went there and there were five people. Including the staff. That bar has since gone out of business.

Really, I’d like to see studies done on the economic consequences of bans–who gets hurt and who benefits.

]]> By: Charlie B https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/07/never-trust-content-from-us-surgeon-general/comment-page-1/#comment-3362 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:42:59 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3664#comment-3362 Florida’s statewide ban on smoking indoors at public accommodations started in July, 2003 and commerce certainly hasn’t ground to a halt. One difference is Florida allows smoking in bars that don’t serve food.

One humorous complaint was from the bowling alley association in Orlando that said they would be losing business if the ban went into effect. There have been no reports of bowling leagues moving to Georgia.

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