On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:26:16 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

On 9/14/11 2:15 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:48:14 -0400, X `
wrote:



Owners of cheesy restaurants probably like a facility where smoking is
allowed, because it'll help conceal poor ingredients in and bad
preparation of the food. Why bother when the patrons can't smell or
taste what is served?



Show the *******s, don't go there.
This is a problem that the market can easily deal with.
If every non smoker boycotted "smoking allowed" places the market
would decide how many restaurants your cohort will support.
Unfortunately it may not be as big a number as you want to accept.

around 20% of Americans admit they smoke in surveys but sales numbers
seem to imply that number might be closer to 35-40%. I know a lot of
"non-smokers" who still smoke. You only have to look at the White
House to see that.

I do notice that the most vehement anti smoker evangelicals are former
smokers themselves who can't stand being around smoke because they
fear that they do not have the will power to resist sparking one up.

I will agree with anyone who says this is a drug addiction and it may
be harder to kick than heroin. That explains the number of people who
are hooked on the gum. (another disgusting habit). The people who
clean up the country club would much rather vacuum up a few cigarette
butts than to be scraping gum up out of the carpet and off the bottom
of the tables.


Avoiding restaurants where smoking is allowed is not a problem in
Maryland, DC or Virginia and in many other state, since smoking is NOT
allowed, period. I think restaurant smoking is also verboten in NYC
restaurants. I don't go to bars, so whatever happens in them in
smoking is not an immediate concern to me.

I have compassion for smokers who want to quit and are having a hard
time with it. It is, as you say, a drug addiction. I have no compassion
for smokers who insist on polluting public places or in dumping their
smoking refuse on the streets. If their car ashtrays are full, they
should eat the cigarette butts.

I agree. Someone who wants to quit deserves our support, but they
don't deserve to be indulged in a public place.