Weak sample: 504 registered voters out of a total population, 2006 estimate 515,004 (USA Quickfacts)Also probably skewedly seeking out latte sipping pinkie extenders since pretty much anyone else in the state is probably working during poll taking hours...
And no doubt living in his/her mother's house.
Or the poll may have been taken in liberal celebrity/wannabe celebrity central -- Jackson Hole.
By the way the Department of Tourism Massachusetts is whinning about Boston's position on the food chain in tourism this morning in the Boston Globe - Boston losing tourism stature
Liberal freaks don't get the connection between banning adult entertainment (drinking and smoking in bars).
e.g. Family of 4 has a smoker. In spite of the nasty little habit, the smoker's family loves him/her anyway. So, the family is going to go on vacation someplace other than MA so the smoker is comfortable and can relax if he/she chooses to do so with a cigarette, pipe, or cigar.
e.g. 21, 22 year old college students and other young people ... social smoking mostly but they frequent nightclubs... Boston's nightclubs are mediocre according to the article above... reason: all the fun people like to drink and smoke socially... they create excitement... some of the anal retentive, stick up their behinds' liberals would know about... Young adult entertainment has most likely gone underground to private parties, etc. (The college students did bitch about the ban... so the nitwits in charge here can't say they didn't see it coming.)
Now they're are planning to build casinos. I predict a collosal failure in the making due to the fact that our nitwit governor is proposing to ban smoking.
Common sense isn't a strength here in MA as evidenced by the Big Dig and half of the Mom and Pop bars and restaurants that have closed due to the smoking bans.
Can't wait to get transferred to a Red State...lol
I’m pretty sure they didn’t stand outside bars, or convenience stores when the poll was taken.
I think I’m going to start my own poll, and walk up to as many smokers as I can find.