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I believe workplaces (office buildings, etc), government buildings and restaurants have been non-smoking here in California since 1994, and in bars since 1998. I have had to drive to the Indian casinos so I can get my clothes to smell like cigarettes!
It still gets under my skin a bit that businesses around here are held accountable for folks smoking inside, but its against the law to NOT sell alcohol to a pregnant woman if she asks for it. If we're going for obscene government regulation, let's do it without double standards.
Well,I for for one can't stand cigaret smoke. My parents smoked since I was a kid so I lived around it for 20 years. I am 30 now and live by myself, but if I even catch a wiff a cig smoke, like driving down the road and I get a bit through my open window, then I will get really bad heart burn. If it's anymore then a whiff, then I will start caughing uncontrollably. I think I may have developed a negative reaction to it from all the years I was exposed to it. I find it pisses me off when I have to inhale other peoples smoke because there is nothing I can do short of wearing a gas mask.
I am glad that smoking is finally starting to go out of style. There are alot of people who still do it, and will continue to pick it up, but I think in 50 years we will find that that hardly anyone smokes anymore.
My town started it a year before our state Illinois put it into state wide effect... .. alot of rage over it.. but most people got use to it.. 90% of all bars now have a beer garden where we can smoke.. I'm a smoker.. and it didn't effect me to much.. its nice to sometimes go to a bar without haze in the room...
In fact my avatar is me out in one of the newly built beer garden.. Its funny.. Its half the size of the bar inside.. and 90% of the people are out there smoking.. 8% are non smokers hanging out with the smokers cause they have no one to talk to inside.. and the other 2% or either bar tenders.. or people who are in the restrooms....
"Sir... can you please put out that cigarette, I'm trying to get drunk and drive home.."
Yeah they did this in Illinois. Alot of people complained for a while but no one realy talks bout it now.
It was really wierd to fly to Vegas and see everyone smoking indoors. lol
At least you guys can get a place to take a smoke. Over in holland it is prohibited by law to smoke in any bar or pub, which points to ridiculous measures. Why not just make all smoking bars and all non smoking bars. You can take your pick where you want to go, same as for staff of such establishments, don't like the smoke, don't start working there. Why is there need for laws in such measures to prohibit the smoking even in what before where designated smoking areas.