Cheesefood
Well-Known Member
What's your take on the efforts to ban smoking in restaurants and bars?
I assume you mean the federal government, since you apparently haven't left yet?ORRELSE said:That said--the day the government gets involved in an issue like this, is the day I move to Canada.
I agree with you on a philosophical level, but I've got to say it sure is nice to be able to go to any public restaurant that I like and not have to breath cigarette smoke.ScottT said:I think they should stay out of our business. It should be the proprietors choice and no others. If you don't like the smoke then visit those establishments that don't allow smoking. There will be places for both folks if the demand is there for both and it seems to me like it is.
BTW, I don't smoke except for the occasional cigar or pipe.
2nd Street Brewery said:Can't do this can't do that because it might bother someone. The whole PC thing is way overboard if you ask me.
kornkob said:Those 2 things are wildly different issues. There is a huge difference between legislating behavior on a public roadway and legistalting behavior in a privately operated business.
Lounge Lizard said:That's very true. As we all learned in Drivers Ed, driving a car is a privilege and not a right. People have to get on the roadways to drive. They don't have to go into any particular brew pub or bar.
drengel said:of course not. i don't know why a non-smoker would go into a business designed to sell tobacco though. bars are designed to sell alcohol though, restaurants are for food. they're completely different operations designed to sell different things. and restaurants/bars with 'cigar bars' are usually in a different closed off room, which i have no problem with. .
Cheesefood said:...everytime I hear someone say "When I go out to eat, I want to smoke immediately" it disgusts me.
Cheesefood said:... Smokers litter their butts everywhere...
Rhoobarb said:I would overlook all of the other 'faults' listed on this thread if I could only rid our country of littered cigarette butts. The filters take something like - oh, 100 years to decompose! Every time I see a butt tossed from the window of a car in front of me, I want to drag that person from their car and force-feed that butt to them!
Cheesefood said:I worked in restaurants and I had to endure the smoking section. It was disgusting. Smokers toss their butts wherever they want without a thought about who has to clean them up.
Smoking in a restaurant is the equivalent of taking a big dump in the middle of the restaurant and leaving it there to stink up the place while people are trying to eat, then forcing someone else to clean it up.
I don't understand why some smokers think it's their God-Given right to ruin EVERYONE else's meal. Some smokers are just so self-centered. They go out to eat thinking only about what THEY want. THEY want to smoke. Never mind the fact that it smells disgusting and ruins other people's night out, it's all about the smoker.
Then they complain if their forced to go outside because it ruins THEIR smoking experience.
I hate how people smoke regardless of who's near them. I've seen people light up standing right next to a pregnant woman or a child. I've seen people take the time to buckle-up their kids in the car, then light a cigarette as soon as they get in.
Get a life smokers! Go outside and YOU be the one who's inconvenienced.
Walker said:I'm a smoker. Have been for about 10 years, but I do not fit your stereotype.
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I'm trying to kick the habit, so please don't harp on me about that.
-walker
Cheesefood said:I've been smoking for about 17 years now.