Is someone smoking here?

My mother was a visit to Denver for family trips two years ago, and some of us were having dinner at a big table in the bar of a restaurant owned Lodo mayor. We barely ordered drinks when nearby patron lit a cigarette.
Mom, who started smoking dried corn silk wrapped in tissue paper, as a child, and was a serious addict nicotine also in its 40S, was the first to complain.

"Is someone smoking here?" She asked in a tone of accusation, which certainly sent a shame after all, who ever had a mother, especially those of us who were caught secretly cigarettes on the playground at St. John Vianney School 30-something years ago. (I swear I did not do it, Mom. It was not me. It was Nancy O'Neil. Honest.) Smoke continued to blow a shame in our direction, and my brother and sister-in-Law, as reformed smokers, reproachful look at the guy in the bar with "Marlboro".

My daughter, a good girl who never caught a sly cigarette, waving smoke from the person rolling, and act like she had just witnessed a crime.

Bar patrons, meanwhile, ordered another beer and ignored us completely.

That's when I realized how far behind the curve, we here in Colorado. Other members of my family, who live in places where the smoking ban was in force during the year. Thirteen states and dozens of cities have long banned smoking in restaurants, bars and workplaces. The scene in the Wynkoop Brewing Company and much explains why Colorado, which stubbornly rejected the land prohibits smoking for many years, suddenly caught a wave. (I have already said, we were in a smoky bar the mayor?)

When John Hickenlooper ran for president in 2003, he made it clear that only the smoking ban he favored a regional or land rights. He said he did not want to see a local Ordinance to put Denver business owners at a disadvantage with their suburban competitors. Cynics accuse him of greedy self-interest and said the Land of the ban would never happen. His opponent, Don Mares, said that this is an urgent public health problem in Denver, which requires immediate action.

In his first year in office, Hickenlooper even had to restrain the rebels in the Denver City Council. Some members tried to pass a citywide smoking ban, saying her face, the state will never act.

Hickenlooper to persuade them to be patient.

Thus, although the names of Sen. Dan Grossman and Rep. Mike May, as clear as the authors of the bill, while Grossman and probably deserves huge credit for the fight with a hail of opposition from smokers' rights organizations and the tobacco lobby, and then Governor Bill Owens signature "was the final blow that put the measure into law, the momentum started with the election of the owner of the bar in the City Hall.

On Monday, his victory was sweet.

After three years because of the scenes negotiations with members of the Restaurant Association of Colorado, legislators and special interest groups, Hickenlooper finally celebrate.

"Not only land approach the maximum health benefits for employees and patrons, but it also provides a level economic playing field for all enterprises, many of whom are at a disadvantage when the competitiveness of the smoking bans are enacted at the city based on City, he said.

New state law prohibits smoking in all public places except casinos, smoke shops, cigar bars and Smoking Lounge at Denver International Airport, effective July 1.

So, then it will be safe to take my mother on the public in Colorado again. Although, if I were you, I would avoid wearing that baseball cap on food, I always break my bread, butter, before I did, and if you insist on putting your elbows on the table, you could end up grounded for a week.