Industry executives say the company is following a general societal trend toward eliminating indoor smoking and reducing the health dangers of secondhand smoke.

Other common restrictions include bans on outdoor drinking and indoor smoking.

To be sure, the national battle over indoor smoking continues unabated, and anti-smoking forces are making continuing inroads there as well.

The law, which restricts indoor smoking, was a model for similar laws across the country.

The ambivalence toward the Scottish ban does not reflect what seems to be a determined drive by many European nations to curb indoor smoking.

Indeed, many immigrants seem puzzled by the mayor's crusade to banish indoor smoking to protect workers from second-hand smoke.

Whether it was taking control of the schools, pursuing a budget deal or banning indoor smoking, he's been mostly no-nonsense, charging ahead in full public view.

She has tried to improve the state's health programs and helped push through a tough ban on indoor smoking.

Now a new study of bars and bar workers in Dublin adds some concrete numbers to the debate over indoor smoking.

And restaurants, as the law stands now, will not be permitted to have indoor smoking under any circumstance.