Despite voting down a similar proposition two and a half years ago, Kirkwood residents will again in November face a decision of whether to ban smoking in public places, the Post-Dispatch reports.
Opposition to the ban is summed up well within the article:
Mike Duffy, a restaurant owner and president of the Kirkwood restaurant association, declared the ban “is not good for the citizens of Kirkwood. Citizens vote with their money to go to restaurants,” he said. “If they don’t want to go to a place (that allows smoking), they will go someplace else.”
To read previous Show-Me Institute discussions about smoking bans, look at these blog posts, or Show-Me Institute policy analyst Dave Roland’s testimony about a similar ban before the Clayton City Council.
