In many of these cases it's been found that although you lose some people who smoke you can also gain people who can't stand the smoke and attendance doesn't really change.
However, in any change of reasonable complexity there are always edge cases, you can't make everybody happy. Banning smoking in public places is an important issue on so many fronts, including health, that I think it should happen anyway. An increasing proportion of the developed world is agreeing.
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In many of these cases it's been found that although you lose some people who smoke you can also gain people who can't stand the smoke and attendance doesn't really change.
However, in any change of reasonable complexity there are always edge cases, you can't make everybody happy. Banning smoking in public places is an important issue on so many fronts, including health, that I think it should happen anyway. An increasing proportion of the developed world is agreeing.