Well..I have to disagree with you on the smoking ban.
I got hooked on nicotine by the time I was 5 years old because my mother would smoke around me all day long. Today, that would be considered child abuse.

When I think back..I used to smoke a pack a day about 20 years ago, but even then I couldn't handle the amount of smoke that was drifting around in public places.
You'd go into a store and the clerks would be smoking at the counter..in college, students smoked in class...even in doctors offices you had to sit in a haze of smoke.
When I was working retail, we used to have customers who'd smoke stinky cigars at the counter and butt them out on the floor of the store. When I was out of work and had to go to UIC, you could hardly see the other side of the room because every second person was smoking. And you had no choice but to go there if you wanted unemployment insurance. I used to think how horrible it must have been for pregnant women or people with health problems to be forced to sit in that haze of smoke for 3 hours.

I'm glad a smoking ban has been instituted now. The only thing that bothers me now is how disguntingly dirty and inconsiderate smokers still insist on being...throwing their used butts outside the doors of all the establishments and blowing smoke in peoples faces as they walk by them at the front doors.