I live in New Jersey, USA. My state, and my neighboring state New York have a smoking ban too. Its wonderful!
There are now restaurants I can go to that I couldn't go to before, and nightclub-type places I could never go to with my friends before-I can go now. Its great.
To me, smoking is very selfish. I know a huge % of the world does it. It the only thing I HATE about traveling to Europe. Its so unfair. There's cool pub types places and Brau hauses I just can't go into, and it sucks.
FYI-When I was in the middle east-Saudi Arabia and Dubai-there is a public ban there too on smoking! It was great!