[claudiustg]

---She said the ban should attract new, non-smoking customers, like the state's 1999 smoking ban did for restaurants.---

That's ridiculous. It hasn't happened in California.People just go outside and smoke. Now they're trying to ban smoking outside the bar!

[Gabz]

It hasn't happened in California.

Nor did it happen in Delawar. Some folks are going outside to smoke, but most have either found bars that are ignoring the ban or have started going to Maryland and Pennsylvania, with their non-smoking friends.