No smokes rule did not cost US bar jobs

IF it wasn’t so serious I’d be inclined to laugh whenever I read about the moaners and complainers who feel their little world will collapse if smoking is banned in pubs.

I have lived in California since 1984 and I vividly remember the very same arguments put forward several years ago in a futile attempt to preserve people’s right to poison others.

I heard those same arguments more recently when a similar ban was proposed in New York.