Casinos can still have smoking sections. You can still smoke in bars that make less than 20 per cent from their revenue from food. If some in the legislature have their way, those exceptions go away.
First, it's an issue of fairness.
Second, it's clearly a health issue. It's a proven and indisputable fact that second hand smoke is hazardous. No one is trying to stop you from smoking. All you have to do is engage in your habit where it doesn't hurt anyone. What's so bad about that?
A Scranton diner fought the smoking ban. It's still there. A couple downtown bars closed. That had more to do with a bad economy, competition, and mismanagement than a ban on smoking.
Other states have anti smoking regulations that are more strict than Pennsylvania's. Show me the economic collapse. You can't because it never happened.
