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Antismoking
Law
To
Affect
Their
Business,
Bar
and
Restaurants
Owners
Say
Owners
of
bars,
restaurants,
clubs,
etc
believe
the
new
antismoking
measures
will
greatly
affect
their
business,
because
people
will
prefer
to
stay
home
to
drink,
where
they
can
smoke.
Some
bar
owners
contacted
by
Inside
Costa
Rica
have
say
they
are
worried
that
the
smoking
ban
will
draw
business
away
and
customers
will
be
upset
when
told
to
go
outside
to
smoke.
Some
bars
owners
say
they
will
stop
selling
cigarettes
to
avoid
penalties,
but
will
wait
until
the
regulations
are
published
and
the
law
takes
effect.
In
Costa
Rica,
only
15%
admit
to
smoking.
However,
Costa
Ricans
are
"social
smokers",
that
is
to
say
they
don't
consider
themselves
smokers,
but
will
smoke
when
drinking
at a
bar
or
club.
The
new
antismoking
law
imposes
a
fine
on
those
smoking
in
public
places,
including
bars
and
restaurants
and
fines
owners
of
businesses
who
allow
smoking.
One
option
is
the
smoking
or "vaping"
of
electronic
cigarettes
or E
cigs.
E
cigs
do
not
burn
tobacco
or
cause
dangerous
second
hand
smoke,
containing
a
replaceable
cartridge
filled
with
liquid,
whose
main
substances
contained
in
the
liquid
are
nicotine
and
propylene
glycol.
Electronic
cigarettes
are
non–flammable
products
that
use
state
of
the
art
micro-electronic
technology
which
provides
smokers
a
real
smoking
experience
without
the
fire,
flame,
tobacco,
tar,
carbon
monoxide,
ash,
stub
or
smell
found
in
real
cigarettes.
With
E
cigs
the
smokers
still
get
their
nicotine,
but
don’t
get
any
harmful
side
effects
of
smoking
traditional
cigarettes
which
contain
real
tobacco. |
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