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Austin enacted a city-wide smoking ban a couple of years ago. It was a huge brouhaha at the time, and everyone bitched and bitched about personal liberties, and how the bars were gonna lose business, etc. etc... Except it turned out that downtown nightlife business actually went up, and all but the most hardcore of nicotine addicts used it as an excuse to quit smoking. People will quit their bad habits, but only if you make it truly inconvenient/expensive enough.
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