re: New Orleans City Council Passes Smoking Ban

A proprietor's choice to be smoking or non smoking is much better than a blanket ordinance passed by the City Council. Leave it to the consumer to decide where they want to take their business. If you didn't want to be in a smokey bar, there were already quite a few non-smoking bars in the area. There are more important issues that the City Council should be focusing on...like violent crime in the French Quarter, low officer numbers and corruption in the NOPD, un-drivable streets...I could go on.