All Right, St. Louis has approved a smoking ban for all public facilities, with only a short list allowances. I am so tired of my human rights dwindling down, I am disgusted. I cannot understand why non-smokers have such a aggressive conviction on what us smokers are doing. I understand that smoking is unhealthy, but I made a conscience decision when I took up smoking, alert to the fact it was unhealthy. Just because non-smokers want me to stop, doesn’t mean that it will happen. Smoking in bars has been a privilage, but most restaurants include a chosen smoking room. If non-smokers prefer not to to smell the smoke, don’t eat in the smoking room, you are not unwilling made to sit in the smoking section. And as well as the workers of these bars that say they are distressed by second hand smoke, what a joke. I held jobs in the service industry for more than 10 years, and I know that almost all of thefellow workers were smokers. Interacting with the public, if anything, drives you to inhale. Also, I have never overheard one non-smoking co-worker ever complain about second hand smoke while working in the smoking room. Putting a smoking prohibition in restaurants and bars, can only save me money, for I won’t go out after the first of the year.