No smoking in Restaurants...

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Anonymouse wrote:

Who wants to be sucking back smoke while eating a meal. I know plenty of smokers who don't want to inhale someone else's smoke while eating. Non-smoking sections just do not work. Unfortunately smoke moves from one side of the building to the other. And not all of the employees enjoy it either. Long term exposure isn't doing anyone's health any good.

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erinlyn wrote:

I feel that a no smoking policy in restaurants is a positive tactic, but I don't think it should be banned from bars b/c alot of customers will not be patrons of that bar anymore. I, for one, have stopped going to a local fav. to watch the football games b/c the bar has a no smoking rule. Let's just face it: MOST people smoke while drinking. Even some nonsmokers will ocassionally light up.

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erinlyn wrote:

I feel that a no smoking policy in restaurants is a positive tactic, but I don't think it should be banned from bars b/c alot of customers will not be patrons of that bar anymore. I, for one, have stopped going to a local fav. to watch the football games b/c the bar has a no smoking rule. Let's just face it: MOST people smoke while drinking. Even some nonsmokers will ocassionally light up.

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UKOH wrote:

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That's only because non smokers are chased out of the bars because they cannot stand the air!
I have lived and worked in Germany which has NO BAN on smoking in restaurants , bars, even in the work place. For a non smoker allowing smoking in office space is flat out immoral. I have a choice whether I go to a bar or restaurant. I have NO choice about the work place. Why should I be made to endager my health just to keep my job?
The arguments in Germany about banning smoking in restaurants are similar to those you make about bars. The restaurant owners are paranoid about loosing clientelle. I've got news for you. Bars (here) and restaurants and bars (in Germany and other European countries) ARE ALREADY loosing clientelle! Non smokers cannot stand it so don't go there. As the population of non smokers in the USA far outweighs the population of smokers (and I worked for a short while at a tobacco product company which keeps close scientific tabs on these things - it is a valid statistic) the probability is that bars in the USA would GAIN more customers by banning smoking than they would loose.
Good reasons indeed to make choices beneficial to eveybody's health.

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True Grit wrote:

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This is not only a good start, the best is yet to come, when the FDA regulates tobacco can you imagine the hair pulling from tobacco execs? Just think of AMTRAK. I have yet to see any government program that regulates any industry run smoothly or for that fact run at all.
one city one state one NATION at a time TOBACCO free. The law and the bans go on and on and on.

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Lucy44 wrote:

Okay, I will stop smoking in restaurants when parents learn to control their children. That is, stop them from running all over the restaurant, crying, screaming, having a FIT when they don't get what they want, slamming silverware on the table, turning around and staring at me while I am eating, the list goes on and on.(And yes, I have 2 kids still at home, and they know how to act when out in public).
Kids can be an annoyance sometimes as well - shall we ban THEM?????

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Lucy44 wrote:

Okay, I will stop smoking in restaurants when parents learn to control their children. That is, stop them from running all over the restaurant, crying, screaming, having a FIT when they don't get what they want, slamming silverware on the table, turning around and staring at me while I am eating, the list goes on and on.(And yes, I have 2 kids still at home, and they know how to act when out in public).
Kids can be an annoyance sometimes as well - shall we ban THEM?????

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Michael Jones wrote:

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You WILL stop smoking in Restaurants if you come to California, Nevada, Utah, Oregon and all the other states where it is illegal.
To equate smoking to ill behaved kids is really a stretch.

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Lucy44 wrote:

Okay, I will stop smoking in restaurants when parents learn to control their children. That is, stop them from running all over the restaurant, crying, screaming, having a FIT when they don't get what they want, slamming silverware on the table, turning around and staring at me while I am eating, the list goes on and on.(And yes, I have 2 kids still at home, and they know how to act when out in public).
Kids can be an annoyance sometimes as well - shall we ban THEM?????

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Lucy44 wrote:

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Well, since I have no reason to visit those states, guess I don't have to worry about it huh?

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UKOH wrote:

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I am disturbed by smoking in restaurants AND noisy kids in restaurants.
Yes, by all means complain and get the retaurant manager to do something about it but since when do two wrongs make a right?
You sound like my wife. Whenever I am trying to have a rational discussion she comes up with a long list of the things (totally unrelated to the topic under discussion) that I am alledgedly doing bad at.
The existance of another problem does NOT justify perpetuating the existance of the original one. The answer is not to keep the first problem just because another one exists.
Solve smoking in restaurants AND noisy kids!