[NYCVirago]

It was, in the main, a witty group, reaffirming this nonsmoking columnist's conviction that people in a restaurant's smoking section tend to be more interesting, pound for pound, than those at the goody-goody tables.

There is definitely some truth to this!

[Just another Joe]

I would say so also.
There are the non-smokers who are also just as witty but like the man says, "pound for pound".