We have had this ban for years .....way before the States did......I was a smoker and have not smoked for a few years now but...I will say that non smoking people can get pretty ridiculous at times...as I witnessed when I was in a football field with about 50 other people and the one standing next to me said I shouldn't smoke because it was bothering them....I suggested that they move since I had been smoking when they chose to stand beside me and there was a whole field available to them ....(I was standing away from the other people at the time.)....I think it takes just a little common sense on both parts.