> You'll have family-friendly places with no cigarette smoke, and adult-friendly places with no loud babies; everybody would be happy!
Well, except you don't. Owners are free to decide here in Austria, and people smoke everywhere. We have located three places that are smoke-free here in Innsbruck: Ikea, McDonalds, and Burger King. People who are ordinarily very polite, always stopping at cross-walks and such, think nothing of lighting up in front of a pregnant woman or a baby.
I think this is one of the most interesting solutions I've seen to the smoking problem:
Well, except you don't. Owners are free to decide here in Austria, and people smoke everywhere. We have located three places that are smoke-free here in Innsbruck: Ikea, McDonalds, and Burger King. People who are ordinarily very polite, always stopping at cross-walks and such, think nothing of lighting up in front of a pregnant woman or a baby.
I think this is one of the most interesting solutions I've seen to the smoking problem:
http://oxonomics.typepad.com/oxonomics/2008/02/the-economcs-...
Which would be more likely to create the outcome you cite than either a blanket ban, or no rules at all.