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Originally Posted by Crowl
While they will have gained a few customers due to the ban, it is a fact that pubs lost customers due to the ban and there should have been some flexibility to allow them to provide smoking areas as long as they were isolated from the main areas as it benefits neither smoking nor non-smoking drinkers if their local ends up closing down.
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In AZ, certain cities were the first to enact smoking bans and bars and restaurants did experience a loss of business as smokers moved to other cities. But when the smoking ban went in statewide, the establishments that lost business regained it and, overall, business increased because potential patrons that had previously avoided bars and restaurants because of smoke began to go to them again. The smokers eventually adapted.