Clinton, I'm with you on the coffee. Nothin worse than paying a premium to grind your own beans and find them permeated with vanilla or some other crap, from the person who used the grinder prior to you. Argh! at least now they are putting in grinders exclusively for folks to use only for their perverse "flavoured beans" that they have the gall to call coffee.

But if you want a smoke with your coffee or beer on the Wetcoast here, I'm afraid you are the one who has to go outside, by law, not the non-smoker.

Its created some hardships for musicians. Even my brother, an ardent non-smoker, wishes they would allow smoking in the Pubs again, as he has come to the conclusion that "smokers" are a far livelier bunch and more likely to come out and spend the money on "live music" and stay longer. The pub where he plays has been sort of dead since the smoking ban.

We had a friend visiting from Australia who commented we sure had a beautiful city, but he couldn't get over the number of hookers standing on the sidewalk, especially during the day. We had to point out to him, they weren't hookers, just government workers stepping out on the street for their cigarette during their coffee break.