'Chris', above, asserted that 90% of their customers are smokers. What a godawful place for a non-smoker.

Why would a non-smoker insist on going to a place where he/she knows there will be that sort of smoking?

Smoking itself has NOT been banned, Sorcha. It has simply been banned within confined public areas (buildings).

Proposed regulations in my area ban smoking anywhere on the premises of any place with public access, or in a competing proposal within 100 feet of any public building. Either, or both, appear to have a good chance of passing.

As "interpreted" by the local Attorney General, the first would mean that you could not smoke inside your own vehicle in the remotest corner of a super WalMart parking lot (up to 1/4 mile+ from the entrance at some businesses in the area affected). The second version has elicited the "legal opinion" that it would make it illegal for most places to even provide a legal "smoking place" outside.

"Nobody who's not like me has any rights" - pretty well sums it up, although the current crop of banners (not just anti-smokers) extend it to "Anyone who isn't JUST LIKE ME should suffer and be punished for it."

John