A "smoking research center"? Are they keeping records?

In Alaska as in many other US states, smoking indoors in public places is illegal.

No pub, to my knowledge, has closed. I am sure that their bottom line has been impacted, of course, but no one has closed.

* A cabbie has told me that their own revenue stream has been affected. He said that people are going home earlier, that taxi cabs now rarely have the late night calls they used to rely on.

* The city of Juneau has officially declared the cigarette butt-littered sidewalks outside bars to be a public nuisance but has not yet found a way to counter the problem. They have installed cigarette butt receptacles on the trash cans but many smokers don't use them.

However I also know that nowadays it is much nicer, not to mention possible, for large-ish groups to meet in a bar to gather in conviviality. I now see people in bars who had not been able to go inside in years.