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Brad Dakake, a coordinator for Tobacco Free Mass., a coalition of state and national organizations that support the prevention of tobacco use, e-mailed supporters asking them to join him for a night of smoke-free dining...
...course most smoking-ban advocates have not considered such measures because this ban isn’t about protecting workers. If that were the case these same people would be lobbying for better health coverage or higher wages for bar and restaurant employees, many of whom make far below minimum wage and rely almost wholly on tips to make ends meet. Were it about helping out bartenders these Smoke Nazis would have considered the adverse effects the smoking ban will have on bartenders. Let’s take New York, where the economic impact of the ban has been...
...moment passed quietly Tuesday night, with only the sound of idle bar chatter, ESPN highlights of the days’ playoff baseball games on television and hundreds of cigarettes being simultaneously extinguished to mark the abolition of smoking in all bars in Cambridge. I admit I am an occasional smoker, particularly at bars, but inconveniencing me or people whose clothes smell smoky at the end of a night is not the issue here. The real issue is that this law is an attempt by a group of meddling politicians and nosy puritans who would like to impose a sanitized, smoke...
...Cambridge smoking ban, we are told, aims to improve the workplace safety of bartenders and waitresses, that noble lot forced to contend with low pay, no health insurance and, if they work in Harvard Square, passport wielding Euro-trash who don’t know how to tip. But, behind the second-hand smoke statistics and public health claims lurks the upturned noses and holier-than-thou stares of those “pious gentlemen” who believe in letting us live only as they...
...particularly late-night business, is down and so are tips. They’ll tell you neighbors complain about the noise from smokers outside and piles of cigarette butts they leave behind. And they’ll tell you how many customers say they are going out for a smoke and skip...