But I'll probably die of lung cancer. The other, The Peddler of Rapidan, didn't allow smoking when it opened last year. Meanwhile, Citizens for a Healthy Mankato are pushing for a ban on the county's largest city's roughly 40 eating establishments. A community survey on that issue is under way. Customers having a later lunch on this particular afternoon either like the idea of the cafe going smoke free or they're indifferent to it.
Nobody takes a strong position against it.
Steve Dauer of Hanska has smoked for 16 years and had a cigarette in his van before he came in. He didn't realize the cafe had gone smoke free and said it didn't make a difference. Even in the places if I can smoke, I don't. It bothers people. Jim Falk, also of Hanska, agrees, but says he'd feel different if the ban were in a bar.