Smoking_Ban

Smoking Ban Loosing freedoms to California Smoking Ban On January 1, 1998 the California legislature imposed a smoking ban in all enclosed places of employment. Smoking regulations are of statewide interest, by the California legislature enacting the smoking ban it eliminated the need for local governments to establish their own. Many people look down on this imposed smoking ban. Many people, smokers and non-smokers, look at this law as a restriction to our constitutional rights. By banning smoking in all enclosed work places it has taken away the rights of bar owners and patrons along with an average loss of sixty percent in business revenues. The California smoking ban takes away our freedom of choice and may lead to more significant losses. The California smoking ban was to protect the well-being of the workers but instead it has sent them job hunting. In an article in the Washington Post a bar tender shares his views on the smoking ban. “The only thing I’m sure of is that there are less customers - about 30% less - and my lungs are fine.” He goes on to say that he may have to find a new job if things don’t pick up. “You try living on 30% less money." A recent study in Ireland finds that non-smokers, who work in pubs or bars, take in smoking, choice, ban, california, freedom, smoke, smokers, law, bar, patrons, owners, nsa, business, bars, against, work, things, rights, own, one, non-smokers, hand, government, free, employees, away, about, without, two, trend, take, state, should, says