"I don't molly coddle anyone and I never tolerate criminals, which is why I verbally, vocally, and loudly oppose the government forced bans on smoking."
I would suggest you stay away from Seattle. About the only facility you can smoke in there are the gay bath houses; for some reason they are an exception. But that is Seattle politics.
I quit after I retired, because I wanted to not because I was told to. Prior to retirement, after lunch in the galley, I always enjoyed a decent cigar at the end of the dock.
I remember a young chief coming up to be and telling me that I wasn't allowed to smoke there (not a posted smoking area, no hazard of any kind). It only took him a couple of seconds to fully understand that as far has he was concerned there was a permenant smoking area ten feet around me.
I have no reason to visit the left coast anytime in the near future, so Seattle has no worries about me darkening their doorways.
I only recently moved out of Delaware where the only places you can smoke are the fraternal and veterans establishments or the volunteer fire companies - what a hoot!!!!!
The state exempted the VFDs (all but 1 fire company in the entire state is volunteer) most especially for their bingo nights which are a primary fund raiser for them. When the Catholic Church in Dover requested an exemption from the ban for their bingo nights they were denied. The CHURCH was considered a public place, yet the VFD that gets taxpayer money was excluded from the law.
Go figure.