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One thing that I have all of my smoking acquaintances do when they run into this nonsense is to inform the business that they are not patronizing their establishment expressly because the do not permit smoking. (I'm a non-smoker that has lived with and around smokers all of his life.) For instance, my elderly parents recently opted not to attend a St. Patty's Day event sponsored by a charity they are involved with that was held at a hotel in Avalon, N.J. Apparently N.J. law now forbids smoking in hotel rooms. The only concession they could allow was that guests could smoke on their balcony if they had to (always an attractive option in the winter!) My mother was reluctant to write the hotel a letter stating that they would not be attending because of this prohibition because it wasn't the hotel's fault. It was only after I explained to her that it might be important for the hotel to be able to actually prove and document its lost business due to the smoking prohibition (should the matter ever come up for reconsideration in the future) that she then wrote the letter. I think it is important for everyone to do this simply to back up the claims of hotel/restaurant/bar owners that smoking bans do, in fact, impact their businesses in a substantial and long-lasting way.

I loves the article about the town that really isn't a town.

It's like Chestnut Hill in Massachusetts which is a zip code for sections of brookline,Newton,and Boston.