The future of smoke-free legislation

In an editorial from the BMJ this week the writer noted that dire predictions from the tobacco industries that forecast the end of civilisation after banishing smoking from bars, & that the bar economy and tourism would collapse proved without merit. Smoke-free bars remain full from Dublin to New York, Auckland, Vancouver, Oslo, Sydney, Rome, and Glasgow. Legislation limiting smoking has led to significant reduction in exposure to tobacco smoke as measured by serum cotinine levels.