 Senior Patient Advocate Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 | Twelve years ago when my wife & I opened her restaurant we opened totally smoke free. Neither of us smoked and we both hated smelling smoke in a restaurant when we ate. We were the only restaurant in the entire Tampa Bay area to be smoke free and we got many many more Thank You's than complaints. The American Cancer Society even took out a full page "ad" in the Sunday edition of the St Pete Times to list all the smoke free restaurants in our area and Habana Cafe was the only name that appeared on the entire page. Now it's the law in Fl as well as many other states but it made restaurant life much more interesting to be the pioneer.
David
Age 58 at Dx, HPV16+ SCC, Stage IV BOT+2 nodes, non smoker, casual drinker, exercise nut, Cisplatin x 3 & concurrent IMRT x 35,(70 Gy), no surgery, no Peg, Tx at Moffitt over Aug 06. Jun 07, back to riding my bike 100 miles a wk. Now doing 12 Spin classes and 60 outdoor miles per wk. Nov 13 completed Hilly Century ride for Cancer, 104 miles, 1st Place in my age group. Apr 2014 & 15, Spun for 9 straight hrs to raise $$ for YMCA's Livestrong Program. Certified Spin Instructor Jun 2014.
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