Support for the measure, the nation's first statewide law prohibiting smoking in bars, crossed party lines, gender, income levels and age.
Most people are in agreement.
The poll comes as the state Department of Health Services airs ads on television and radio urging support of the bar smoking ban. Those ads cast the law as one designed to protect workers from the ill effects of secondhand smoke. Gov. Pete Wilson signed the landmark ban on smoking in enclosed workplaces in 1994. The law, written by then-Assemblyman Terry Friedman of Los Angeles, was extended to bars starting Jan. 1. Of the major candidates for governor, only Atty.