Comments on: Today’s Misc. Local Links http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/8267 Minneapolis + St. Paul Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:11:27 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bob from ALAMN http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/8267#comment-15142 Bob from ALAMN Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:39:50 +0000 #comment-15142 Six months into the <a href="http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5628620.html" target="_blank">smoking ban</a>....the long awaited economic impact study from Hennepin County shows that there is almost no impact. Surprise, surprise. HC can live without smoke.<br /> <br /> This was a short-term study, only a full year's tax records will tell the full story. It should be enough to shut up some of the pro-smoke types who have been yapping on this since March.<br /> <br /> Unfortunately, it won't... Six months into the smoking ban….the long awaited economic impact study from Hennepin County shows that there is almost no impact. Surprise, surprise. HC can live without smoke.

This was a short-term study, only a full year’s tax records will tell the full story. It should be enough to shut up some of the pro-smoke types who have been yapping on this since March.

Unfortunately, it won’t…

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