Jump to full article: KTVI myfox St. Louis (MO), 2009-10-27
Author: Sean Conroy FOX2now.com
Intro: With an estimated 20 percent of business at stake, bowling alleys are becoming the battlegrounds for the St. Louis County smoking ban on next week's ballot. The proposed ban has several exemptions for casinos and bars but not for bowling alleys. So owners and users are being very vocal when it comes to a smoking ban, especially since it is only a short drive to other locations where you can smoke and bowl in the same place.
Bowling a couple frames is a favored past-time. For many knocking down pins goes with lighting up smokes.
"A lot of them smoke studies show 20-30 percent of bowlers do smoke," argues Tom Shucart of Hazelwood Bowl.
If a majority of voters in St. Louis County say yes to Proposition "N" next week, smoking at Hazelwood Bowl and most other public places would be illegal by 2011. With the Ford plant across the street gone, Shucart fears a smoking ban will chase many of his remaining customers away as well.
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