Skipy, our folk club used to be in an upstairs room of a pub, and the room was declared 'smoke-free'. The bar (and all of the smoking) was downstairs. By the end of the evening my clothes stank of fags and my eyes and throat were red-raw. I've noticed this phenomenon in many clubs which operate in seperate 'smoke-free' rooms. It's simple physics - air circulates, and takes the smoke with it.

Given the intractability of smokers such as yourself (and I'm happy to acknowledge that not all smokers are that way) the ban was inevitable and completely justified.

As has been said many times on here, if the smokers had behaved in a considerate way and gone outside for their fix, a ban would never have been necessary. You caused your own downfall by your stubbornness and now you're moaning that it's someone else's fault.