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"If you don't like the atmosphere, don't go in." I heartily agree. However, New Jersey answered those who objected on those grounds by claiming to be protecting the workers in the bars. As if the people who applied for a job in a bar had expected a smoke-free workplace.
I suspect we'll soon see bars reinventing themselves as private "clubs," where patrons pay some nominal membership fee. About 15 years ago I had to join some restaurant's "club" to get a beer in Texas.
In the early 1960s, high schools around here had smoking areas for students. When I taught high school in the early 1970s, three places in the school were always full of smoke: the lavatories, the faculty lounge, and the boiler room. No more. Kids who smoked in school used to be suspended. Now they are arrested.
[Edited by greymule on May 14th, 2003 at 12:57 PM]
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