Remember back in the winter of 2009, when the proposed (and eventually approved) Virginia ban on smoking in restaurants was hogging the headlines? We’ve now come full circle: after “repeated complaints,” police in Falls Church arrested 13 people last weekend — nine for illegally smoking and four for allowing smoking in their establishments — in what is believed to be the first charges levied under the ban that was passed last February. The Post reports that police made the arrests over the weekend in the 6700 block of Wilson Boulevard in Seven Corners at Eden Center, which houses a bloc of popular Vietnamese restaurants. Each of those arrested were fined $25. I’m not surprised that it took nearly 16 months for the first smoking ban charges to hit the record: rounding up a bunch of smokers to collect a fine that is less than it costs to take a date to the movies probably isn’t the highest priority of law enforcement officers in Northern Virginia.