Leave it to Connecticut, we have a STATEWIDE ban on smoking in restaurants, bars and all public buildings. The public building one went into effect sometime in the mid to late 1990's and the bar/restaurant ban was a two step deal, October of 2003 for the restaurants and April of 2004 for bars. People canstill smoke in private clubs like Elks, KofC, etc., however some local clubs have decided to implement a ban on their own. For instance, the American Legion still allows it but the Franco-American Club does not.
When they were "crafting" this legislation, they talked about leaving it up to the individual towns but supposedly the bars and restaurants wanted all or nothing because they figured if one town instituted a local ban and another did not, it would adversly affect the establishments in towns with the ban.
We can still smoke in cigar shops and at the Indian Casinos but the casinos are starting to ban smoking in certain bars/restaurants within the casino.
I voted "yes" (ecause of the statewide ban) even though I smoke at home or in the car.
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