Regarding the varying worries about the ban being implemented here we can look to Ireland where a ban has been in place for a while.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medi...p?newsid=32164
Cotinine (pronounced cot-tin-een) levels in the saliva of non-smokers were reduced by 80%. This indicates less exposure to smoke.
The bar staff experienced a significant drop in respiratory symtoms.
Public support for the ban rose from 43% to 67%. In bars/pubs this increased from 13% to 46%!
More than 80% of Irish smokers surveyed said that the smoke free law was "a good or very good thing".
Of those who had stopped smoking over 80% said that the law had helped them to do so.
Having a trawl around some other medical journals this came up from the European Respiratory Journal which is interesting.
http://erj.ersjournals.com/cgi/content/full/24/3/337
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Originally Posted by clarie
[snip] Oh and by the way, what happens if you live next door to someone who repeatedly plays their music loud enough for you to hear it? I expect you might ask them to turn it down...similar to me asking someone to stop smoking in my presence...
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Good point.
So if someone moved in next door to Xaccers and decided to exercise their "right" to play his/her music at full blast, Xaccers would not have a problem "choosing" to move house???