I think it's wonderful. We now have a 25' no-smoking zone in front of buildings law in Seattle, I'm not sure if it's state-wide. Anyway, it certainly makes it more pleasant to walk into the campus library where I work since I don't have to walk through a wall of smoke first. They are trying to ban smoking on the entire campus, except in a few designated areas but I don't see how this is feasible. No-one can take a 10 minutes walk away from their workplace to smoke several times a day. Even if they do this on their break, they would only have time to walk there and back. Smoking is not illegal so they have to accomodate smokers in a reasonable manner.

Reading the posts about how hard it is to quit, and I had read before that it is particularly hard for women, makes me more glad than ever that I never tried it. There was plenty of peer pressure (I grew up in the '50's) but it looked rather silly to me instead of cool and smelled awful, so I just refused. I chose another "vice".

Someone from Argentina has mentioned that start of bans there. Are they in place in Australia and New Zealand yet? It's hard to imagine bans in East Asia, or has someone heard this is happening?