Smoking ban shows how much bars stink

Smoke no longer stinks up my clothes, sticks to my lungs or clouds my vision at the local pubs. But the one good thing smoke did was mask the nasty, musty, stinky, old-beer-on-the-floor odor that all bars have.

I mean bars really stink now ... like a hockey locker-room. It's always been there, but the smoke masked it. Smoke has been masking nasty bar smells since the 11th century, but we never knew that until now. It's like we've made a brilliant historical discovery.

I vote we bring smoking back just in bars to spite my clothes and lungs.

Ed Spizzirri

St. Charles