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t <br /> 1 <br /> to reconsider the date for the onset of new smoking regulation. He felt <br /> that this would help the restaurant industry. The profits are down and <br /> employees are being laid off everywhere. Itwasn't something he was <br /> telling them that they didn't already know. But, he felt that it would be of <br /> some help to the Mashpee restaurants and their employees. <br /> Mr. Santos asked the other board members for comments. <br /> Mr. Ball responded that his position remained the same from the last <br /> board meeting, He felt that the decision was up to the other two board <br /> members, <br /> Mr. Santos asked Ms. Grady if she had any comments, <br /> Ms. Grady responded that Just in the grand scheme of life , people <br /> die per year from environmental tobacco smoke, so eight months might <br /> make a difference in the grand scheme of life. The other thing was that <br /> Mr, Mitrokostas dict come before them to have the same date for the <br /> cessation of smoking, as the town of Sandwich,and it was a neighboring <br /> town. <br /> Mr, Mitrokostas responded that he believed it was a different situation, He <br /> has a restaurant in sandwich and a restaurant in Mashpee. There was <br /> very little crossover, Bust, .Falmouth and Mashpee are more joined <br /> w together. Sandwich stood on it's own, Dennis, Yarmouth and Barnstable <br /> went together on that section. It was almost sectionali ation. He knew <br /> this because he had restaurants in both towns and he knew what the <br /> crossover factors was for customers corning from sandwich to Mashpee <br /> and Mashpee to sandwich. There really wasn't that much compared to <br /> Mashpee and Falmouth. If you compare the Mashpee border to the <br /> Falmouth border. The majority of the people are much closer this way <br />.= than they are from Mashpee to Sandwich. Mashpee and Sandwich border <br /> the base, the majority of it. There was a bigger discrepancy with the <br /> mileage and everything else than there was from Mashpee to Falmouth. <br /> He wouldn't ask you to come to Sandwich because he believed that <br /> smoking was part of the restaurant culture. Especially when you have 21 <br /> year old and over rooms, which allows them to decide where they want to <br /> sit. If this is an issue about protecting the employees. Your cannot protect <br /> the people from themselves. If they are over 21 and voluntarily pick up a <br /> cigarette. That is their choice. He could see their point of protecting <br /> second hand smoke for employees. <br /> IVIS. Grady brought up the protection of other customers that are not <br /> smokers, <br /> 1 <br />