>>>>, or that smokers stop smoking and alcohol drinkers stop drinking.
>>You can't smoke in most public areas in the US.
>>They tried outlawing booze and that didn't work out very well.
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>What they did to cut down smoking in the U.S. is a model for how they should be approaching a push for the vaccines.
>First, the cost of a pack of cigarettes is just outrageous (which is fine with me)
>Second, many places (like CVS, to its credit) don't even sell the bloody cancer sticks anymore.
>Third, many restaurants banned it altogether. I've never seen hard data, but I've heard anecdotal responses that some restaurants saw an uptick in revenue AFTER smoking bans.

I was spending a lot of time in NYC when Bloomberg imposed the ban on smoking in restaurants and later in bars.
He took a lot of flak for that from the owners at first, but as you said, some of them later said that business had improved.



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>This might surprise you, but given how well the vaccine has performed at keeping people from getting seriously ill, I'd have no problem if every place of business, every public area, etc, made it a rule that you have to keep out unless you've gotten the shots (obviously, for all those 12 and older at this point).
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We're seeing some of that here already by selective business owners.
I scanned mine and put it on my phone but no one has asked for it yet.

The current spikes in some southern states might speak more persuasively than anything you or I can say.