Has it been a year already? If it is HAPPY BIRTHDAY SMOKING BAN!!!!!!

Time flies when your not smoking in public places anymore. I doesn't even seem like a year now since City Council ,headed by then Councilman Mike Nutter at the time, passed the bill that people thought would kill every establishment in the area. God forbid we can't smoke at our tavern anymore? Off with Nutter's head! People were saying that last year, just before he announced that he was running for Mayor. I thought this would be his down fall , first your taking our cigarettes , then you wanted to stop and frisk? But it seems that the ban and Nutter survived with flying colors. Who would have thought that the calm would be so nice after the smoke storm.

But what people didn't realize was that other states were right behind or ahead of us already with the smoking ban, you can't even smoke at casinos anymore I think. And the same will apply when those Mega Casinos being built down by the waterfront. But are we better now without the smoking than we were last year. Did anything change now since we can't smoke at the Linc? How do you feel about the current state of Phila with the smoking ban? Are you better now than you were last year?