I voted, keep as is, with designated smoking areas.
That is how it WAS here in Montreal. BUT they implemented the law that you can't smoke in ANY public places anymore, and must be 10yards from a common entrance to any building so that those going to and from don't have to inhale the fumes.
I don't go to restaurants anymore, I likely will not go to a bar until I've quit smoking (but then, I never go anyway, so no big deal lol), I simply avoid going anywhere for an extended period if I can't have a smoking break without freezing my tookus off outside.
Granted, I just got my prescription yesterday for the patch to quit smoking.
So YES, it's a nasty habit and YES I hate that it's an addiction and YES i want to quit, and YES it stinks.
HOWEVER......
I don't like that smokers are treated like lepers. I have to breathe in people's noxious body odours. I have to breathe in the polluted air from people's cars, busses, trains, etc.............
I find it all a bit rather hypocritical and unfair that smokers are targeted and the large manufacturers and travel companies aren't targeted for the pollution they are contributing to our air.
I'm sorry, but the simple fact is that smokers contribute far less to pollution than MANY other contributing parties (busses, plains, trains, boats, cars, manufacturers...)
If my money is good enough to pay for the food I'm going to eat, then I expect to have a smoking area to eat in, so that I can pleasantly digest the meal I just ate by following it with a coffee and a cigarette.
Granted, I do not like a cigarette waved in my face while a fork is in my hand, and I don't like to smoke in a room with closed windows, or in a car with closed windows.
But I just find this all a silly farce, and full of hypocrisy.
If people are so darned concerned with pollution and lung cancer, then drive an electric car.
but, I'm still going to quit smoking:lol: