All Right, St. Louis has passed a smoking ban for all restaurants and bars, with only minimum exemptions. I am so done with my legal rights dwindling down, I am distraught. I don’t fathom the reason non-smokers have such a aggressive personal opinion on what we smokers want to do. I understand that smoking is foul, but I made a conscience decision when I took up smoking, alert to the fact it was not good. Just because non-smokers want me to cease, does not mean that it is going to happen. Smoking in pubs has been a allowance, but most restaurants have a special smoking room. If non-smokers don’t want to be in the smoke, don’t sit down in the smoking room, you are not unwilling made to sit in smoking. And as far as the jobholers of these pubs that comment they are tortured by second hand smoke, what a joke. I held jobs in the service industry for over 10 years, and I know that most of theco-workers were smokers. Interacting with the public, always, compels you to puff. Also, I have never heard one non-smoking co-worker ever whine about smoking while on the job in the smoking room. Putting a smoking restriction in restaurants and bars, ultimately will only save me money, because I refuse to eat out after the the new year.