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10-06-2007, 03:11 PM
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News, Smoking Ban Costing Some Jobs.
Employees Under Age 21 Losing Jobs Under New Law.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Tennessee's new smoking law has forced some businesses to release employees who are under 21 years old.
Caitlin Grant, who is 20, has mixed drinks at a Chattanooga bar for several months, but now she's not old enough to enter the Electric Cowboy as a customer.
She and a half-dozen other employees at the bar can't keep their jobs since a no-smoking ban inside workplaces began Monday.
The bar continues to allow people to smoke inside by prohibiting anyone who is not at least 21 from entering, an exemption to the smoking ban.
Smoking Ban Costing Some Jobs - News Story - WSMV Nashville |
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10-10-2007, 07:24 PM
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TENNESSEE VOLS
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Location: Georgia.I rather be in GODS country Tennessee.Everybody knows Gods a VOLS fan.
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Is this suppose to be a total ban of smoking in all sports bars?I was just in Chattanooga a couple of weeks ago at the Fox and the Hound watching the Tenn.-Ark. St. game.I'm not a smoker.
Last edited by CabinFever; 10-10-2007 at 07:54 PM..
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10-10-2007, 09:42 PM
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just wondering how the law is written so a person has to be 21+ to order a drink, but the person serving the drink can be under 21?
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10-11-2007, 07:55 PM
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It means that you can't work in a smoking environment if you're under the age of 21, but if the business went smoke-free, then you could work there. There trying to get people to stop smoking. Higher tax on cigarettes, and you have to be 21 to go into any club that serves alcohol or your parent or guardian has to be with you, and they don't want people who are under the age of 21, working in a nicotine filled environment. I personally don't understand it because you can be 18 to smoke, serve alcohol, voted for president, but you can't work where people are smoking? That's ridiculous! There not going to change it to "no smoking" because most of the people who go into bars are smokers.
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10-12-2007, 08:54 AM
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Location: Beautiful East TN!!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TriDad
just wondering how the law is written so a person has to be 21+ to order a drink, but the person serving the drink can be under 21?
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I noticed that too! Is TN law really written that 18 is the minimum age to serve drinks? In other states I know you have to be 21 to serve. |
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10-12-2007, 10:33 AM
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You can get your serving license when your 18, but you have to be liscensed to mix drink for people at any age, but if you work at a restaurant, mixed drinks are made by someone else usually, not always. To sell something like beer, you only have to be 18 and you don't have to have a license, it's a little weird.
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