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    5 days ago

    I still find it funny that we used to just have smoking and non-smoking sections, as if the smoke would stay entirely on the smoking side of the restaurant when they’re not even physically seperated.

    That shit sucked. I am a smoker myself and even I hate being in a closed room to smoke or be around others who are smoking. Casinos fucking suck for this. In California, the smoking ban doesn’t include the native American casinos. You can smoke indoors (and drink at 18+) at Jackson Rancheria.

    • @driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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      5 days ago

      Like in 2005 I worked in a restaurant with an smoking section that had an independent hvac systems for the two sections and a double door to enter the smoking section. It was expensive as fuck and the restaurant failed and everyone got laid off.

      • Schadrach
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        45 days ago

        That’s excessive. You don’t need entirely separate HVAC systems. You just need a small pressure differential. Wall in the smoking area and add an extra fan blowing to exhaust. The pressure difference means air flows in when the door opens rather than out.

        There was a restaurant in my area that did that once upon a time before the smoking section was abolished. It was actually pretty effective.

        • My guess is that regulations were pretty strict there. I was a waiter at the time and that was the only restaurant with a smoking section I ever knew about.

          • @psud@aussie.zone
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            The first smoking bans were soft, some non-smoking bar and restaurant staff got lung cancer and sued their employers for not protecting them from smoke

            Those sort of places banned smoking inside to avoid similar litigation

            Some made more effective barriers between smoking and non-smoking sections, and only put smoking staff on the smoking side