Quit your whining. You've got good compared to Kalifornia Maine has it GOOD compared to Kookiefornia????? I think Maine IS running neck and neck for California!
For instance: all restaurants in Maine were FORCED to go smoke-free in 1999! The business owner had no choice. ALL the hospitals and health care facilities in Maine are smoke free! Can’t even grab a cigarette in your privately owned vehicle as long as you are parked on their lots!
Maine cigarette taxes went up and now a pack costs $4-$5 dollars a pack.
Personally, I think Governor King is a long lost brother of Governor Davis. IMHO.
I consider myself a sensible person, not because I don't smoke, have never smoked, can't stand to be around smoke and try not to ever smell cigarette smoke.
I consider myself sensible because I don't get mad if I go out (once every 4 years) to a bar and somebody is smoking. It is abar for heaven's sake.
You don't move in to a house next door to a smelter and then complain it smells funny in your neighborhood. And if I sitting on an outside patio eating lunch at work I don't expet every smoker to snuff out their cigarettes. All I do is if I was there before them I wish they would ask if it would bother me and if the wind is blowing towards me we can switch tables.
Somehow those easy solutions escape the smoking Nazis and some militant smokers are so tired of getting stepped on if you ask them to switch seats with you then get all bent out of shape.
It's just simple common sense/ common courtesy