Reader's View: Smoking bans in bars were a godsend

Reader's View: Smoking bans in bars were a godsend

Will Cain, on his Fox News show on Nov. 5, declared he was opposed to mandatory smoking bans in bars. He said it should be left to proprietors to enact bans. Cain was about 5 years old in 1980 when I opened my successful bar and liquor store at age 27 in southeast Alabama. Just about everyone smoked under my bar’s low ceiling but me. I will never forget each waking, throbbing “smoking hangover,” which forced me to spend more than $700 for an air…