[Ditter]

There ARE scores & scores of nonsmokers out there who have NEVER gone to bars because of the smoke. Over the years they have formed habits of drinking in non smoking restaurants or at home or friends houses. Habits are hard to break, even the habit of NOT going someplace. Habits don't change over night, maybe the habit of NOT going to bars is just too hard to break.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

I'm sure there are.

However, I was referring to the Anti-Smoking Nazi's who wrote all the Op/Ed pieces, called all radio talk shows, populated all the message boards on how disgusting it was, and how happy they'd be once they could dine smoke free.

Well, they got their wish...now where are they?

They did a great job "talking the talk", but aren't "walking the walk".

[Great Dane]

#35.... Well, we have had a ban for well over 2 years, the non-smokers still haven't broken the stay-at-home habit.

[kevao]

maybe the habit of NOT going to bars is just too hard to break

For me, it was the other way around.

[Gabz]

Habits are hard to break, even the habit of NOT going someplace.

Apparently it is not terribly hard, considering the smokers have largely stopped GOING to bars.

Habits don't change over night, maybe the habit of NOT going to bars is just too hard to break.

See my above statement.

The proponents of the smoking bans were the ones claiming that all the bars and restaurants would be filled with the non-smokers you claim stayed away because of the smoking. They also claimed the smokers would get used to it and come back after a while.

That may be true in southern California or in Florida where the weather is ususally conducive to being outdoors, and in the nice weather in Delaware, New York, and Maine provided the establishment already had outdoor seating. The smokers, who make up the vast majority of the clientele of the bars and taverns are not going to put up with it in inclimate weather.

Nice try.

[CSM]

"Over the years they have formed habits of drinking in non smoking restaurants or at home or friends houses."

Correction, a private property owner has given himself the competitive advantage of being smoke free or they are to lazy to make the investment themselves. Smoking bans destroy non smoking bars too!