In an article on NYC's smoking ban, WINNIE HU says,

Polls back the city's contention that New Yorkers have welcomed the ban. A New York Times poll in June showed that 56 percent of the 962 respondents said they approved of the smoking ban. A Quinnipiac University poll in October found that 62 percent supported the ban.

Look, I don't particularly like people to smoke near me while I'm eating. But a bare majority doesn't really mean that "New Yorkers have welcomed the ban."

On the other hand, recently here in Paris, I made sure to sit in the no-smoking section, but the restaurant was so small, I still suffered from somebody's smoke. They left, and someone with a large group in the no-smoking section lit up. We moved to the smoking section, where no one was smoking (amazingly, given the proclivities of the French, almost all of whom seem to smoke).