Should bars and restaurants be allowed to provide outdoor areas for smokers?

Yes, they should. I don’t smoke, but my wife does. If she wants to go outside in a smoking area, she should be able to.

− James Bell, Baltimore

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That’s a tough one. I’m largely in favor of the ban for health issues, but there’s the issue of the right to control one’s own business. If smokers have a place to be and others aren’t exposed to secondhand smoke, then it sounds reasonable.

− David Diggs, Severna Park

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Yes, I think they should. But it shouldn’t turn into another room where employees might have to work and defeat the purpose of the ban.

− Angelina Grandel, Fullerton

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Yes. I’m a bartender and everyone smokes outside anyway. People who have a problem with it complain, so if there was an area smokers could go, people wouldn’t have a problem with it.

− Bryan Clark, Baltimore

Interviews and photos by Amanda Munsie