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I remember hearing things like this before the indoor smoking ban a few years ago. People said it was part of what bars and clubs were for. In particular, New
by spodek 15y ago
I remember hearing things like this before the indoor smoking ban a few years ago. People said it was part of what bars and clubs were for.
In particular, New York City establishments said people who came in from the suburbs and brought money in would stop coming in.
The ban was successful. A year or two later Hoboken passed a ban because people were increasingly going into the city for the cleaner indoor air they couldn't get in Hoboken.
As a New Yorker of over two decades, I'd love to see such a ban here, perhaps with some areas, like Times Square, zoned to allow it. As with smoking, I expect a large majority would support it once implemented.
- r00fus 15y agoWhich is to say, some places like Las Vegas might not want to implement it. However, it is the purview of government to legislate things like this to establish protection of the "commons".
- vl 15y agoHah, ironically Times Square is already zoned other way around - when new building owner wanted to reduce number of the billboards on the building, they couldn't because city quickly passed regulation to keep them up.