Funny, I have always despised cigarette smoking.
I just started smoking cigars about a year ago. But only in the convertible, on the golf course or on my back patio - and only about one a month...
The smoking offended me since childhood. I could never understand the acceptance of someone having the audacity of blowing smoke at you - even when the culture in which I was brought up treated it like chewing gum.
I always took the old joke "if you don't smoke, I won't fart" as very poignant and directly to the point, and both activities are equally harmless, physically.
I am in a band and I love coming home from gigs now without smelly clothes thanks to the smoking ban in Washington state. That said, I say again that I am absolutely opposed to the government, via the power of the gun, forcing privately owned businesses to ban smoking in their establishments!
I'm libertarian on this one.
Your attitude and position is greatly appreciated.
A year or so ago I was talking to a guy, a non-smoker, with a band who no longer books gigs in Delaware. After the smoking ban went into effect, the places where they had been playing weren't getting the number of customers and couldn't/wouldn't pay what they used to pay. They now stick to playing in Maryland and Virginia.