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Smoking goes part and parcel with bars. That's part of the ambiance, that's part of the culture. You drink, you smoke, you induldge every vice that one can in a public place legally, and then you leave.
I grew up in MD, where there are strict no-smoking laws for resturants and such. But the bars were untouched. And while I do understand it for resturants, and when I'm having bad patches with my lungs, I appreciate it as well, you can't touch bars in that regard. You'd loose buisness horrifically. In PA, where I'm at college, you don't tell a pack of guys who've come to the bar to drink in -20 weather to take the cigarettes outside, especially when the alcohol can't leave the premises open. It's too cold for the porches for most of the year. Our fav bar in town works it fairly well, in my opinion. There's a smoking section with the bar downstairs as well as seating to eat, and the non-smoking section is upstairs. You can still order drinks from the bar, but you don't sit at it. It works.
The point is, if you don't like smokers in bars, then don't go to bars. Go to a non-smoking club or resturant instead.
~Emma
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