What a joke. Here in Chicago, there are over a dozen bars (not restaurants with kids that also serve alcohol) within two miles of my house ignoring the ban. After the first winter, they had to choose to allow smoking during the second winter, or close. All these new customers never came. The trendy places in yuppie areas with a high turnover do ok with the ban. The panhandlers and other undesirables who cannot enter can now freely mingle with bar patrons in front of the bars that comply. Most have a "fine kitty" to which patrons gladly contribute. Family restaurants do ok with faster turnover and a lot of called in "to go" orders. The only complaints come from neighbors of the bars that comply who can vote their ward dry.

Our Smoke Free Illinois Law is working very well up here and the Kansas Smoke Free Law was long overdue. Congratulations to everyone who fought and worked long and hard for this and my condolences to the big Tobacco Companies.