I'm thinking about quiting live poker for the next month,
but I'm worried that I might have withdrawl symptoms from the second hand smoke.
http://www.komonews.com/stories/40178.htm
OLYMPIA - Smokers will be evicted from bars, restaurants and private clubs across the state next month after voters overwhelming approved a statewide indoor smoking ban. Some bar owners worry that their businesses will go with the smokers.
With about 70 percent of the expected vote counted Wednesday, 63 percent of voters supported the more restrictive statewide ban on indoor smoking, 37 percent opposed it.
"I don't look at it as much as a smoking as a personal rights issue," said Bob Materne, owner of The Swinging Doors, a restaurant and sports bar in north Spokane. "My customers can go to war, but they can't smoke."
Materne said the ban - which takes effect Dec. 8 - could force him to lay off of as many as 15 of his 50 employees due to expected loss of business.