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There's already a total ban on smoking in public restaurants/bars/etc. in Colorado; it took effect 1 July 2006. CO is the 13th U.S. state to pass such a ban. Personally, I would hope that economic incentive is sufficient to keep it out of most decent restaurants/bars I might actually go to. But being a nonsmoker myself, I don't especially care if it is banned; I certainly like not having to smell/inhale smoke. But as the years have passed, I've only had to deal with it occasionally.. and the only time I can remember recently having an unpleasant encounter with smoke clouds is occasionally when I exit/enter public buildings. I'm not sure why they seem to like smoking around doorways. My suspicion is because it's usually the only shelter close enough to where they want to be.
That being said, I get made fun of for being fat and deaf frequently. Both of which are certainly true & both are difficult problems for me that I work on resolving every day. Most of the time it's because people are too immature to be polite about how others are different from themselves. If someone smokes around me, I ask them politely to stop. If they refuse, I go somewhere else or deal with it. Same approach to dealing with jerks or mean drunks etc.
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