New York's Tobacco Ban

Fellow Manhattan webloggers Jonathan Van Gieson and Lockhart Steel are taking sides over New York City's smoking ban. As a New Yorker, bar patron and non-smoker, I have to side with Van Gieson... I'm looking forward to a weekend where my clothes don't end up smelling like I work for Altria, and I think there's far more patrons now who don't smoke. Yet at the same time, as a lifelong New Yorker, I can't help but feel that it's another form of the creeping gentrification that threatens to turn downtown into the latest Disneyland; been to Times Square lately, anyone?