Smoking ban affects Australian members’ clubs

The last comment made me laugh, a)can a business survive six months with a 20% loss of trade and b)will the non smokers want to go into the clubs and spend their money,especially in gaming machines?

Smoking ban affects Australian members’ clubs
In July, the top 20 members’ clubs in New South Wales averaged a drop in income of between four per cent and 20 per cent on all of their activities because of the ban on smoking, which was introduced on July 1.

The gaming machine element also showed similar falls. In Victoria, the average was a 20 per cent fall.
It is expected that it will take six months for the figures to recover.