It takes about one minute to walk from the center of the downtown core to its edge and back. That would still leave a smoking addict nine minutes of a ten minute break to smoke a cigarette. Betty Taylor either can't do simple arithmetic, walks incredibly slowly, or is being disingenuous in her comment. I certainly can expect an employee to walk less than a thousand feet during a ten minute break. 

I really don't care of the clown car city council passes a downtown smoking ban or not. I'm still not likely to venture downtown very much simply because it is unsafe, unpleasant and filthy. Good grief, we've got a white supremacist bar and a library that functions as a homeless shelter and white supremacist recruitment center. It would be nice of the clowns on the city council would get out of their bubbles once in a while.