Smoking bans stoke global warming?

Fewer cigarettes get lit indoors in bars and restaurants because of smoking bans from California to Ireland but something else is going up in smoke from a sidewalk in central Oslo – about $100,000 a year in extra outdoor heating bills. The heated pavement, installed at a cost of about $400,000, may be the most extreme example of an environmental side-effect of smoking bans: rocketing power use...

[like I've always said, everything started with the smoking bans!!! {that was for LH}]

http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2008/04/28/smoking-bans-stoke-global-warming/