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re: New Orleans City Council Passes Smoking Ban
Posted on 1/23/15 at 10:08 am to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 1/23/15 at 10:08 am to SlowFlowPro
quote:Thank you, counselor.
i retracted that statement
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Posted on 1/23/15 at 10:44 am to Winkface
I wish they would address the crime in the fq instead of spouting out this bullshite that's gonna be unenforceable.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 11:02 am to SlowFlowPro
Has a bar ever been successfully sued for secondhand smoke exposure slow?
Posted on 1/23/15 at 11:05 am to Placebeaux
quote:You realize New Orleans was one of the only major cities to not already have the ban, dont you? So where are these tourist going to go? Monroe?
9 million people visit New Orleans every year. If you take nationwide averages, 20% of those visitors are smokers. SOOOO that leaves you with potentially 1.8 million people that could get fined or get turned off to the city by this ban.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 11:07 am to SlowFlowPro
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Nola is proving that its government is much more concerned with expanding its power over its population
ummm this was proven decades ago brah
and there has been absolutely no evidence that it's close to changing
although it's SLOWLY changing...NOLA is losing too many of their "born and raised" folks...it seems to me a lot of the nola born and raised are the ones who ignore crime and pretend things are perfect.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 11:19 am to lsupride87
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You realize New Orleans was one of the only major cities to not already have the ban, dont you? So where are these tourist going to go? Monroe?
Metairie
Zealot you a fool
Posted on 1/23/15 at 11:23 am to lsupride87
quote:
You realize New Orleans was one of the only major cities to not already have the ban, dont you? So where are these tourist going to go? Monroe?
I'm sure quite a few people looking for a party destination choose between Vegas (no smoking ban in bars/casinos) and NOLA. It was already mentioned that a fairly large cigar convention is coming to NOLA this year, and they are likely to stop coming here after the ban.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 11:25 am to htownjeep
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The Louisiana State Police did a study and has said the state/city will lose money. Are they wrong?
In the long term, yes. These bans don't impact business like everyone cries about before they go in place. I've lived in 2 different places where this happened a decade ago. Same story with bar owners bitching. Until they realized all their patrons continued coming anyway.
That is not the point though.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 11:28 am to THRILLHO
quote:And on the flipside, conventions have also said they won't return until there is a ban in place.
It was already mentioned that a fairly large cigar convention is coming to NOLA this year, and they are likely to stop coming here after the ban.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 11:34 am to Winkface
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And on the flipside, conventions have also said they won't return until there is a ban in place.
Which ones?
Posted on 1/23/15 at 11:34 am to Winkface
Why do you hate freedom so much????
Posted on 1/23/15 at 11:37 am to htownjeep
APHA is one that I know of. ~13,000 attendees. Cantrell mentioned 27 in total.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 11:41 am to Winkface
quote:
APHA is one that I know of
That makes sense.
quote:
Cantrell mentioned 27 in total
Interesting. I wonder why the LSP's study didn't have this included?
Posted on 1/23/15 at 11:45 am to htownjeep
American Heart Association is another. 22k people.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 12:02 pm to lsupride87
quote:
You realize New Orleans was one of the only major cities to not already have the ban, dont you? So where are these tourist going to go? Monroe?
You realize people come to New Orleans to drink and party and that a lot of those people smoke. New Orleans is not like other major cities.
Los Angeles visitors /= New Orleans visitors
Posted on 1/23/15 at 12:08 pm to Winkface
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APHA is one that I know of. ~13,000 attendees. Cantrell mentioned 27 in total.
So they're going to continue coming here even if the ban doesn't include Bourbon St? Why don't they care about the health of those poor people?
Posted on 1/23/15 at 12:12 pm to Placebeaux
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You realize people come to New Orleans to drink and party and that a lot of those people smoke. New Orleans is not like other major cities.
If 80% of the population are non-smokers, then wouldn't it stand to reason this would make New Orlea s more attractive? Louisiana (and the South) has a higher % of smokers tha m other parts of the country. Most people in the US these days do prefer to avoid places with smoke, even when they are going to "drink and party".
The economic impact of this is negligible to positive I'd bet, but again, thats not the point.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 12:13 pm to Tiger in NY
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Most people in the US these days do prefer to avoid places with smoke, even when they are going to "drink and party".
They could have done that before the ban.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 12:15 pm to THRILLHO
This thread makes me want to drive to Nola. Post up at a bar and smoke an entire pack.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 12:20 pm to Winkface
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It's funny because so many people are screaming that we are behind the rest of America in doing this.
Why do we have to be like the rest of America. If the rest of America was eating dogshit for breakfast, we have to too?
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