Out here on the left coast we have had the smoking ban for some years. It started as sort of a local option, and I was a City Attorney (i.e., solicitor) so I drafted a lot of them, with all kinds of tortured exceptions and loopholes (I actually went into places to measure how far the tables for food were from the bar). Eventually, after much howl a state ban was adopted. Despite great cries of coming disaster, there was no lasting effect - people simply went outside to smoke, or didn't, and kept right on going in for a drink. -- Jerry Coleman, in Belmont, California
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