Since my move to the Pacific Northwest, I’ve reveled in the lack of smoke in cramped, unventilated places like bars, restaurants and nightclubs–and let’s face it, a city-wide smoking ban is about preventing the kind of damage that comes from fumigating these kinds of tiny rooms. Of course, I wish such bans gave establishments the right to create specific, working smoking/non-smoking divisions, and I also wish that if city governments are compelled to meddle with a habit as widespread and addictive as smoking, they’d offer more useful, realistic resources for people looking to either quit or at least adjust to such a ban.

Seattle has something like that in place: http://www.quitline.com/ … which I think is probably a total joke to longtime smokers, but still. At least such an effort shows respect to those whose habit is getting kicked in the junk.