Has the smoking ban been good for Minnesota?

I'm not from Minnesota but I think a smoking ban is good for every place and every one

In our town they recently passed a ban on smoking. Like the year before they told business owners if they put in filtration systems they wouldn't ban smoking. So many businesses invested in the filtration systems and low and behold they still banned smoking.

Absolutely wonderful. Now I can go to any restaurant and sit anywhere. Before I was not able to enjoy many restaurants with so-called non-smoking sections because that is a myth. And in other restaurants, I could only sit in restricted areas. Hooray for freedom and freedom to breath and not stink after eating.

Alcohol may cause more problems than smoking, but when a person drinks their alcohol does not end up in my beverage; when a person smokes their smoke does end up in my air. I am allergic to tobacco smoke and even in the non-smoking sections of restaurants, I was suffering. The air systems just did not do enough to pull the smoke out of the building. I feel badly for smokers; it's a nasty addiction and even worse after all the substances cigarette manufacturers have added to the tobacco over the years. But while I can avoid drinking many things, I can't avoid breathing.

Hooray for freedom?!? anytime you start regulating private property thats one big step away from freedom! And the last time I checked no one was holding a gun to anyones head to go in to or work in a business were smoking was allowed. More and more restaurants were becoming smoke free on their own as It should be instead of the government health nazis telling us to. And if smoking so bad just outlaw it!... Oh wait the hypocrite government is making to much money off the taxes of cig sales. What is nexts in the realm of banning? transfats, perfumes, certian colors?

I think it's great! Now my husband and I can go out and our eyes don't swell shut from smoke. We just love the new change. It is for the better, a healthy Minnesota!

Only in Minnesota do the smokers complain so much because after being in New York there surely is not the outcry from smokers as there is here.

People who choose to smoke, I end up smoking too by the second hand smoke.
Mike show the stats on "Alcohol causes far more social problems than tobacco ever could" -- mularkey. No doubt, alcohol ingestion goes up as both go hand in hand or is that hand to mouth.

Oh and Mac, freedom is when people are born with a cigarette or any other vice in their mouth. Not when when someone has taken the liberty, and my freedom away to live insult free, of imposing their "right." My human right is more important than their civil right. What an oxymoron, huh?!

My take -- smoking should also be banned in all vehicles. Otherwise, keep the windows rolled up to choke on their own cancer sticks.

Choke off your own in your home, too, just don't subject anyone else to your flagrant disregard for their health. Speaking of which, because I don't have any throat cancer, smoking should be banned in all open air spaces.

Long live prohibition - I love my clean air in all the places I go to.

Catherine

I now only smoke my range of Acrylic Bongs at home. There was a local smoking lounge near me where they allowed me to take my own smoking equip