Where does eveyone stand on smoking bans?

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Originally Posted by DenverChief

Nobody is forcing you to do anything you patronize the business that allows it out of your own volition

I agree with that in theory. However, in practice around KC that meant only three or four places were non-smoking. The great majority of owners were too chicken to alienate that one or two smokers.

Several times my wife and I would pick a place for dinner where no one was smoking. We'd sit down and be enjoying our food when a smoker would show up, sit in the "smoking section" (which just happened to be on the other side of a half-wall from us) and light up while we were trying to enjoy our food. Then the assholes would get their food and put out their cigarette so they could enjoy their meal smoke free.