Majority supports smoking ban

Most of the people of “smoke free air” are probably too young to ask bar patrons. After over a year of experience here in Chicago, now that the fanfare has worn off and the lobbyists have moved on to other states, it's clearly obvious that trying to ban smoking in small neighborhood “shot and beer” bars is pretty useless. Many small bars in my area ignore the ban to keep their customers, neighbors, and local police (many are patrons when off duty) satisfied. In areas where real crime is an issue, the problem of undesirables being attracted by groups of people outside the bars and causing disturbances on the PUBLIC street, property that the owner has no control over, far outweighs the issue of people peacefully smoking inside a bar, bothering absolutly no one, All of the complaints are from neighbors of bars that comply. It's fading into history in many small neighborhood bars. The only places it becomes an issue seems to be in rural areas where local police have little to do except visit local bars and monitor their parking lots.

It isn't just secondhand smoke we need to worry about, third-hand smoke is pretty dangerous too! There's a whole lot of junk in cigarette residue that gets everywhere, even your hair and jackets! If anyone's interested in that they can read about it here:
http://www.tipsonstoppingsmoking.net/smoking-fa…

Even if they just set up smoking -only rooms, it's very hard to contain the cigarette residue that people get onto their clothes and hair. A smoking ban in workplaces is a great idea for the promotion of public health and safety.

While a smoking ban in casinos may drive away smoking customers, it may attract more non-smoking customers, and because the latter does not smoke, they're likely to live longer, have more money leftover (from not buying cigarettes) and be able to frequent the casino more than the smokers. So is it really a loss?

We can;t hide the fact that there are lots of people that just can’t stop smoking, even in some public places, well in my own opinion why don’t they just let them smoke in public places I mean its not that bad to light a cigarette in such places

Cigarette smoking is so bad. It is the the main cause of lung cancer. One shouldnot have this.
So banning smoking is good step.

Yea, this is the trend towards where things are going. To answer some previous comments that ask why smoking is not just banned, I think the answer might be tax dollars. Smokers financially support many helpful and beneficial programs.