your lucky, they passed the smoking ban in Houston in 2007. They tried a number of times to pass it in Katy (right outside Houston), but it never made it through. Then it's like they just gave up... which sucks.

I hear you,
Believe me if it were easy to cut out, we would. It makes maintenance and upkeep a lot more difficult (filters, cleaning, etc..). Sadly there are a lot of things it would disrupt if we did, since 80-90% of our base smokes. Eventually it'll happen, a ban would make things a lot easier though.

For now, were pretty focused on the second place due to open late October or November, there won't be smoking there from the start.
Cool seeing TGP get a second place and the other venue popping up downtown. Gonna be a good year for Houston's location pinball scene.

There aren't any long term studies on it obviously, but in the short term they say it's a lot less harmful then cigarettes. Problem is it's not regulated, as far as I know, so you don't really know for sure whats in the liquid.
Also change your batteries every so often, otherwise there is a chance of explosion. It's the lesser of the two evils for sure.
Think only 1 person has died from an exploding e-cig compared to close to half a million (per year just in the US) caused by tobacco.

Yup, their the Downtown venue, we're gonna be in Sugarland.
Their dallas location is pretty cool, got a chance to check it out last year at TPF.