Back in 2006, New Jersey passed the Smoke-Free Air Act that banned smoking indoors in public places like bars and restaurants, because despite decades of advertising to the contrary, smoking leads to the ICU, not flavor country.
Prior to the decision, those same bars and restaurants raised hell over concerns that their businesses would be decimated by the throngs of smokers taking their nicotine and discretionary income and going home. Their predictions turned out to be prophetic, and the restaurant and hospitality industry was decimated by the loss of revenue. Across the state, mom and pop diners and local watering holes were boarded up and abandoned, their dilapidated husks turned into neighborhood tobacco dens where smokers huddle around barrel fires talking about the good old days when you could hotbox an entire dining establishment at will.
