New Jersey profiteert van rookverbod New York
Veel New Yorkers houden het in de stad voor wat betreft het uitgaansleven voor gezien en reizen af naar Hoboken voor een gezellig samenzijn in restaurant of bar.
De omzetcijfers van de New Yorkse horeca beginnen bedenkelijke vormen aan te nemen.
Clad in a fashionable pink outfit, Cheryl Johnson, 30, chats with a group of friends, a lit Marlboro Light squeezed between her manicured fingers.
“Happy hour is about having a cigarette, drinking a cocktail and relaxing after work,” the financial consultant said last week from inside the Whiskey Bar in downtown Hoboken, N.J.
Just a month or two ago, Johnson and many other revelers in the bar would have been enjoying an after-work smoke and a stiff drink at a New York City bar. But the city’s butts ban has many folks beating a hasty path to the PATH train to Hoboken and other smoke-friendly spots across the Hudson River.
“We usually make our plans so that we can come back to Hoboken right after work,” said Alison Bank, 31, a hospitality specialist for a midtown hotel who lives in Hoboken. “I don’t want to have to stand outside if I want to smoke a cigarette.”
