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The ban should be selective in that public services are non smoking. This includes government run transit systems and government subsidized transit systems. It's pretty simple. If it's a public initiative it is non smoking, because no smoke is a lot less intrusive to smokers than smoke is to non smokers.

Pubs, restaurants, etc, would be up to the business owner. For any private business it would be up to the business owner.

Something like a McDonalds would be up to the franchise obviously, and I'm sure they would go with non-smoking because of the child factor.

Libraries and government offices would be non smoking. Unless there was a private library, they can do what they want.

Private office buildings get to choose as well, and obviously they will choose a nice middle ground like no smoking but allow smokers a place to go that is decent. Because they don't want to discourage good employees who don't want to work in a smoking environment.

Banning smoking in public places would be bullshit too. There could be bylaws about not smoking near bus shelters and stuff, but it would be better if everyone would just grow a pair and tell the smoker it's bugging them. I'm sure the smoker would understand, or at least some sort of dialogue would occur instead of just preventing every possible irritation for whiners all the time.

Edit: I'm horribly inarticulate lately. Sorry if this is unclear.