Reply #18: i smoke and it doesn't really bother me

[fizzgig]

my city passed their smoking ban five years ago (i wasn't smoking at the time) and for me, going outside to have a smoke is a chance to get out of the bar and actually talk to people rather than shouting over the music.

colorado passed its ban last year and i was a bit more perturbed, mostly because the two bars i went to outside the city limits were almost exclusively smoking...the owners, all the employees and probably 95 percent of the patrons smoked.

i understand that non-smokers don't want to be around it and i try to be very sensitive to that, but i also think that business owners should have some modicum of control over what happens inside their establishment and the free market should be allowed to work. smoking is a legal activity and it is being criminalized to an extent.

but, like i said before, it's no bother to me to have to go outside to smoke