[rwfok]

There are two related articles and a poll.

[steve50]

The smoking bans are costing owners a fortune everywhere they have been implemented.

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[Just another Joe]

The anti-smoking rules require restaurants, bars, pool halls, bingo halls and bowling alleys to be designated as either entirely smoking or completely smoke-free, or allow smoking only in designated rooms that are enclosed and properly ventilated so that secondhand smoke is not circulated "in any manner" to a nonsmoking area.

Sorry, this is what I've been saying needs to happen. Read the bolded part.
Let the free market prevail. It shouldn't take a law, but if this is the way it goes then so be it.
Anyone in Oklahoma want to start a 'smokin' bar?

"These rules are fair. Secondhand smoke shouldn't be wafting over our children," Keating said at a state Capitol news conference.

I still don't like this. "It's for the children."

[waterstraat]

"Today, people will riot on an airplane if you take a cigarette out and light it up. Just a few years ago, that would not have been possible."

A few years ago, the airlines gave away complementary packs of cigarettes to the passengers on board, and most of the pilots and stewardesses smoked. But that was back when flying was fun, and there were no security measures(and when there was no loss of life due to hijacked airplanes either)