Joe Queenan on the repercussions of the smoking ban: "The immediate effect was to force legions of angry, drunken smokers out into the streets where they could congregate in large angry circles and keep everybody in the neighbourhood awake until three o�clock in the morning complaining about not being able to smoke inside any more. New York City used to have a lot of bars. Now it is a bar."
Dying for a cigarette [Speccie]