I found this blurb in today’s Times:<\/p>\n
\nSmoke-free day<\/strong><\/p>\n Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub in the Pike Place Market neighborhood is going permanently smoke-free June 1. For the rest of this month, though, smoking at Kells is restricted to a back bar area, except for Sunday.<\/p>\n On Sunday, Kells will be among a number of local establishments participating in the state Department of Health’s first designated Smoke-Free Sunday. The health department is urging public establishments, such as restaurants, pubs and bowling alleys, to go smoke-free for at least that day. The department also is encouraging patrons to show support for the smoke-free movement by dining at smoke-free places.<\/p>\n The state health department’s tobacco prevention-and-control program has initiated a public campaign to make it easier for the public to identify eateries that are smoke-free. The department is providing establishments that ban smoking with a “100% Smoke-Free” decal for display on front doors or windows.<\/p>\n A health department Web site lists establishments, which include some bars and taverns, that are permanently smoke-free, and those observing Smoke-Free Sunday. A map -?on http:\/\/www.SecondhandSmokesYou.com -?lists more than 5,800 smoke-free eating places in this state.<\/p>\n At first, I was planning to write this entry to encourage everyone to go out on Sunday to the restaurants\/bars that were temporarily going smoke-free. The smoke-free website has a long list of participating restaurants in Seattle alone.<\/p>\n However, the more I looked into it, I realized that only a tiny handful in that long list are not ALREADY smoke-free restaurants. The only one<\/em> I could pick out (aside from Kell’s) was Maguire’s Irish Bistro. Ultimately, I’m forced to conclude that Smoke Free Sunday is a sham.<\/p>\n