The public places smoking ban has been in foece here for quite a few years. It hasn't had any noticeable effect on urban drinking spots. A few years before that, however, the province cracked right down on driving under the influence, and that killed quite a number of rural taverns. It just became entirely too difficult for people to get home from having even a couple of beers. Some pubs tried running little buses or vans all around the countryside to take people home, but changes and increases in insurance policies killed that effort.