Core_Models wrote >>
sean2outerspace wrote >>
lisathewaitress wrote >>
bars aren't workplaces? curious wording.
I was thinking the same exact thing. Why is it that people who work in other industries are permitted to work in a smoke free environment,but those in the service industry must be subjected to smoke in the workplace?
1. You're not.
2. Smoking is a legal activity and there are places it is deemed acceptable. Personally, I believe bars should be one of those places and choosing to work in a smoking bar would be exactly that, a choice.
Bars are traditionally smokey, if you're opposed to that, find one that isn't or wait tables/tend bar at a restaurant instead.
so if 4 years ago, someone got a job at a bar, and that bar decided to return to smoking, you'd expect that person to just pack up and leave? Go back to being the low person on the totem pole, lose the best shifts and make considerably less money? What about someone who tends bar that is a parent(or worse pregnant), just send them home with second and third hand smoke to potentially harm themselves and their children?
What bars have really even been hurt by the smoking ban? I go to all sorts of places that are still crazy busy since, I guess that some old timer/ country/ suburb bars may have seen some sort of an impact, but I really don't see it as much in the city. We should probably just leave well enough alone.
All this is coming from a bartender who still enjoys a cigarette or two while out from time to time.