Smoking bans: Good or bad?

Stats have shown that smoking bans have helped business. From what I read a while back.

Smokers still go to bars, but non-smokers who wouldn't go also go now.

Philly has yet to ban smoking, which is a joke. It's a major city, and pretty much all major cities have banned it now to make places healthier for everyone. It just shows how much of a joke the city counsil is here.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

This may just be me, but if I was a business owner, I wouldn't even care if I was told what to allow in my establishment if it affected people's health. In my opinion, business owners don't have a right to choose what to allow in their restaurant if it affects the health of others. Even if that thing you are told not to have isn't illegal. The articles I read said smoking bans help businesses, but even if that was false, and it didn't help businesses, it wouldn't hurt it significantly at all.

But I don't go in restaurants that allow smoking. I've stayed out of them my whole life, and I don't intend to go in them either. I hate how smoke clings to you. Your hair, your clothes. It's just disgusting. It's the most disgusting habit in the history of the world.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I'm sorry but people who say second hand smoke doesn't cause cancer are just in denial. One thing I've noticed about smokers is that they are in denial because they can't stop smoking, so they just make up whatever BS to make themselves feel better. As for the non-smokers that actually use the argument that second hand smoke hasn't been proven to cause cancer, use your brains. You can taking in the same cancer causing chemicals, just not directly into your mouth and lungs. But you are taking them in.

Double Post:

Originally Posted by Eleo

I'm sorry, but cigarette smoke simply does not stick to you so easily or so permanently, especially if you're outside and merely walking through it. The only time I've ever had smoke stick to me was while smoking indoors. If what you said were the case, a substantial number of people inside any given building would smell like cigarette smoke regularly, because there's almost always someone or another outside of a building smoking.

Oh, it most certainly does. I walked by someone smoking on the street. Walked by, so that means I spent less than a second next to a smoker outdoors, and I smelled it on my clothes after walking 3 blocks back to my place.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.