[sarcasm]

Next step - banning alcohol in restaurants and bars.

[SheLion]

MSNBC wants to hear our opinions about Bloombergs anti smoking deal. We should all send email telling them just what we think!

You can email MSNBC at:

question@msnbc.com

[TLBSHOW]

isn't this that fake republican that is really a demorat talking?

[Great Dane]

This is what we have in Ottawa, 27 and counting going out of business, charities closing their doors as they are no longer getting funding from bingo halls and Legions.

[grumpster-dumpster]

"— views bars and restaurants as workplaces before social establishments, and has said that employees within them should have the same option of a smoke-free environment as those who work in offices."

Your option to work: "This is a smoking establishment... you want the job or not?"

[finnman69]

I am a NYC resident who will not be sorry to see smoking go away. If you are banning smoking in a workplace, bars and resataurants are certainly workplaces.

Look for more smoking rooms to be created. Nothing wrong with that.

[aristeides]

Isn't the health case against second-hand smoking basically bogus? Has anybody conducted a study of workers in workplaces that are constantly exposed to smoke?