Are you saying people voted for these bans?
I don't know about Illinois, but here in Florida we did not vote for them. They have been and are being forced upon us, by a legislature that think they out-rank God almighty in the importance of things.
Immie
It was on the ballot here in Ohio. Bars/restaurants were fighting it for a long time but people get used to being smoke free. I'm never around it anymore, not at work, home or when we go out and restaurants and bars are always busy.
Primarily the idea was to help out the casinos. As a smoker I would rather drive a couple of hours and cross the Iowa or Missouri border than drive 20 minutes to our local one where I couldn't smoke. And since we were on the road anyway the wife and I would get a motel room and eat out. So Illinois's law was a boon to our neighboring states.
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Just because you'd rather drive all that way? One couple does not a boon make.