Smoking in restaurants??? (Denver: sales, casinos, live)

[poodlepill]

As a non smoker I’m wondering about the smoking in restaurants. Are there non smoking sections or no smoking inside buildings period.
Thanks
Poodlepill

[Mike from back east]

Originally Posted by poodlepill

As a non smoker I’m wondering about the smoking in restaurants. Are there non smoking sections or no smoking inside buildings period. Thanks Poodlepill

Smoking is totally banned in bars and restaurants, except for a tiny handful that were bonafide cigar bars before the ban.

[ryanek9freak]

Really? I thought it was in restaraunts only. I guess you guys got the same laws we do here in Ohio

[Bideshi]

Even dart pubs? Maybe I'll start playing again!

[COflower]

Originally Posted by ryanek9freak

Really? I thought it was in restaraunts only. I guess you guys got the same laws we do here in Ohio

You can't smoke up in the casinos anymore either.

A few of the bars around town have adapted (those that have the room) in outside patio areas with heaters and the like for the winter months. Restaurants, even as a smoker, who wants that wafting while you are enjoying a good plate of yummy? But those with patios will let smokers, usually during the summer months only though.

The only public place in Colorado one can smoke is in the smoking lounge inside DIA unless as stated they are considered a smoking bar and their total net sales are a certain percentage or at least $50,000 annually.

[ryanek9freak]

I still think it's a bunch of crap. I can understand not smoking in restaraunts, and i'm ok with that, but no smoking in bars? WTF? you're there to destroy your liver, god forbid you light up a ciggarette. We have the same law here in Ohio, and it's destroyed the local bar business.

[COflower]

Originally Posted by ryanek9freak

I still think it's a bunch of crap. I can understand not smoking in restaraunts, and i'm ok with that, but no smoking in bars? WTF? you're there to destroy your liver, god forbid you light up a ciggarette. We have the same law here in Ohio, and it's destroyed the local bar business.

The legislator went on the idea that it's for the health of the employees.

I think, hey, you work in a bar...you must understand the downsides of drinking, you are old enough to make that decision and kids aren't allowed in bars.

Plenty of restaurants were smoke free before it was forced so an individual or corporate restaurant could have made that decision on their own. Same with bars. But smoking and bars go hand in hand as well as smoking is still legal.

I desire to be smoke-free myself by my 40th birthday but that's a health and personal well-being issue. I hope I never become a militant ex-smoker...

[Katiana]

There are a lot of threads about this issue on the state forums of states that just recently passed "no-smoking in bars" laws. I truly do not see how, if the whole state is non-smoking, such a law can destroy the bar scene. It's sure big here in Denver!

IMO, the big issue is the staff. Employees should not have to breathe smoke in for 8 hrs.

[ryanek9freak]

i've never met a bar employee that didn't smoke. EVER.

[osugirl2]

The no smoking anywhere is really going to suck when I get there!! I completely understand no smoking in restaurants, but I think a bar is a different issue.