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D.C. Smoking Ban: Struggling bars miss the smokers, their cash

From the Washington Times: Struggling D.C. bars miss the smokers, their cash.

Like every other smoking ban imposed in every other city, bars are getting hit the hardest. Since the ban went into effect in Washington, D.C. on January 1, bars have lost business to their counterparts in Virginia, where no smoking ban is in place and property owners retain the liberty to determine their own orientation. As for what orientation, smoking or non, would be best for their business, many Virginia bar owners close to D.C. have remained smoking, effectively and effortlessly stealing the business from D.C. bar owners whose only crime is having located their business in an area where paternalist legislators reign.

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