Will there be a news story about an Illinois business generating more income due to the Smoking Ban?

If this is re-posted or re-written with different odds, I will be sure to place a wager on it.

That is an interesting take with the beer garden story. I had not thought of that angle before...

I was originally thinking about an industry that had recently become "smoke free" (or that has been smoke free for a while but become recently noticed) that experienced a growth in profit because of the smoking ban.

The strict Illinois smoking ban is just another sad example of the tyranny of the majority that prevails today. It seems that anything that rises to the level of annoyance is now fair game for legislation by the same intellectual giants who so capably administer our government. The law in question does not even allow bar owners to make the choice themselves. If it did, the bars that allowed smoking would be absolutely packed compared to those that wouldn't. The "second hand smoke" argument has so many holes in it when it comes to these overreaching laws it is not even worthy of consideration since working at or patronizing a smoking establishment would be purely voluntary, whereas the smoking ban is an inarguable mandate enforceable by legal sanctions. The almost absolute lack of tolerance and the petty nature of our government and, sadly, many voters in the USA today disgusts me.

yeah, it is a pattern. we are slowly having our choices and freedoms taken away from us.

markov, have you ever had a job? I only ask becuase you say it's voluntary to work in an environment that is not smoke free.... I don't support general bans in public but I am much happier not being hit with smoke every time i go to a restaurant or school (I still walk through a cloud of smoke to go into the building though, my school is not compliant with the law that people not smoke within a certain distance of the door).

Smoking isn't just an annoyance Markov, it kills people. I for one have asthma, and as such could be killed with one breath of second hand smoke (especially now that my fast acting inhaler is off the market becuase apparently it furthered global warming).

Even with the threat to my life noted though, I agree the ban is too strict. Let bars and such have smoking if they want, people don't need bars. Restaurants and other business's could have a choice, but at work and school where I have to be, people have to put it out.

Does this question need to be re-written and re-posted. Let me know and I'll void to allow re-posting.

@ironman288
I am somewhat puzzled that it seems you take issue with my comment though we appear to be on the same page. You state:

"I agree the ban is too strict. Let bars and such have smoking if they want, people don't need bars. Restaurants and other business's could have a choice, but at work and school where I have to be, people have to put it out."

I am in complete agreement with that sentiment. The focus of my comment was on the bars. I do not support unfettered smoking inside schools and non-service industry workplaces. Smoking in such places in Illinois has been banned for many years already and for good cause. However, Illinois has now gone from a reasonable approach to the matter to a draconian approach. I decry such state sponsored attacks on our personal liberties in regard to smoking to the same degree I rail against all other of the innumerable instances of Mommy Government grasping beyond the reach afforded them by the Constitution.