Smoking in US and your city?

[kap]

For valid reasons we are concerned about the second hand smoking affects on humans but no one talks about the affects on animals. Just a thought.

[Harbourmaster]

That 20 feet from the entrance of a building stuff is pretty much worthless, since most folks who are forced to go outside to have a puff will light up the moment they hit the door and invariably stand a few feet from the entrance... on the upwind side so that it all blows back in anyway!

[Black Landlord]

[quote Ted King]I live in a city that may have been the first one in the nation to ban smoking in public places. It became law here in 1990. It's a pretty conservative little city so it's a bit surprising that this would be the place such a thing would start.
I had an uncle in California who was an anti-smoking activist in the 70s-- sent us an article maybe 1978-ish about a smoking ban he helped get enacted there (forget which town exactly,- Palm Springs maybe? but it was way before 1990).

[Racer X]

samintx, I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that it will only affect bar owners profits if they want it to.. The bar I hang out at was affected by the Seattle smoking ban years ago. Business did drop off for a bit, but a different clientel started to come in. More people would swing in after work for a bite to eat and a beer, and more and more groups of 20/30yo would stop in as a gathering point before a night out on the town.

The owner tweaked the food menu and now his profits are up 30-40%. These were customers who would never have set foot in the place while it was a smoking bar.

And I don't have to strip out of my clothes in the garage, and seal them in the washing machine, and go straight to the shower before bed.

[Bill in NC]

Here in the heart of tobacco country:

You can't smoke in publicly-owned buildings, or any privately-owned offices I know of.

All shopping centers, malls, etc. have banned smoking.

Almost all the independently-owned "country-cooking" restaurants I frequent have gone smoke-free except for one (and I expect that to change soon)

Fast food and chain restaurants, and all restaurants with bar areas, are smoke-free.

I don't hang out in honky-tonks or any other type of bar, but I assume you can still smoke there.