The Moscow City Council soon will take up discussion on the proposed ban on smoking in bars. We hope members will be deliberate in their discussions and not act in the same hasty manner in which the proposal appears to have been made. That is not to say we are opposed to such a ban. We believe nonsmokers have the right to be in a bar without having to breathe secondhand smoke. We feel, however, that it is a function of the state to enact such a ban as it did a few years ago in banning smoking in public places, including restaurants. The state, for whatever reason, left it up to the various municipalities to create their own statutes if they wanted stricter nonsmoking laws/Murf Racquet, Moscow-Pullman Daily News. More here.

Question: Would you prefer that the Idaho Legislature decide whether to institute a smoking ban in bars statewide? Or leave it up to individual communities, like Moscow?