City council didn't do bars any favor
Friday May 25, 2007
The city of Champaign recently leveled the playing field for the bars in the city. I think they will find, on Jan. 1, when the statewide smoking ban takes effect, that they hurt the bars far more than they helped them.
For the next six and a half months the bars that complained of lost revenue and returned to smoking will be losing customers – not the smoking customers, but the nonsmoking customers. Many of the bars have decided to remain smoke-free and work toward developing a nonsmoking clientele while the bars that have decided to return to smoking will be slowly losing those customers.
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