I remeber going to the bars back in Alberta and they had smoking, and non-smoking sections. I used to smoke, but then I quit. Going to the bar where the smokers were on one side, and non-smokers on the other worked out just fine for me. Sure, you could smell it a bit, but I couldn't taste it. Unlike most clubs, where smoke filled the place awnd you could chew it.

After time though, they made a bylaw where you couldn't even smoke inside any establishment, bars included. I think this is unfair to smokers. They were treating them like children, and after time, people started crowding around outside, hundreds at a time, tossing their butts on the ground.

To me, if a business has a section where smokers can go, then I'm fine by that as a non smoker. It never bothered me when they had the seperate sections, so why don't they just do that again?

The way I see it, if you're going to a bar, then expect people to smoke. If you don't like that, then go to a different bar, but I think having indoor sections for smokers to go is a good idea. Not sending them out in the cold for crowds of people, and having smoke butts piled up outside the doors.