I am glad this state has a Clean Indoor Air Act, and it has increased my enjoyment of restaurants and bars. But I'm not so sure that banning smoking completely at such places would reduce my exposure to it. When my workplace banned indoor smoking in the early 1990s, those of us coming and going from building entrances ran a gantlet of smokers. We were exposed to a lot more smoke than when all smoking in the building was limited to a single well-ventilated room. It was a mere 30 feet from my desk but I never smelled--or inhaled-- the smoking within.
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