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[desh]

After long delay, Philadelphia city council suddenly passes smoking ban legislation

I practically jumped out of bed when I heard the news. Finally! Assuming the mayor signs the bill (and smart money is that he will), then starting in 2007 I'll be able to go out with my friends without feeling sick for the rest of the day! Congrats to city council for doing the right thing, and congrats to Michael Nutter for finally getting this through, and probably earning a few thousand votes for mayor at the same time.

I know some of you disagree with this, or think it makes me a bad liberal or something. And you're probably right, but dammit, I just want to be able to go out at night without spending the whole time counting the minutes until I can jump in the shower. I don't think that's too much to ask.

Comments

[t3chnomag3.livejournal.com]

I guess the question is if you think it's plausible for a business to be subject to the Sunday Sales Law (30% of profits from food and non-alcoholic drinks) and also make less than 10% of their food/drink profits off food. Which would by necessity mean that their non-alcoholic drink sales would have to be 20% of their business. Somehow I don't see that as likely.

Even if you're not taking the Sunday Sales Law into account, it would seem likely that the sale of non-alcoholic drinks would be insignificantly small compared to food sales, no matter what, so leaving them out of the equation or putting them in doesn't seem to make much of a difference in my opinion.

From my reading, both the Sunday Sales Law and the new Smoking Law specifically talk about profits from food and drinks *only*. Ticket sales or non-consumable sales don't seem to get factored into the equation one way or the other.