On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:47:12 GMT, "Michael \"Dog3\""
> wrote:

>Wayne Boatwright >
86.120: in
>rec.food.cooking
>
>>
>> In much of AZ many restaurants have been smoke free for years :-( As
>> of this year, every dining and drinking establishment is smoke free.
>> The bars are really hurting, from what I read in the paper. So far,
>> at least, restaurants with outside patio dining can still offer an
>> area where smoking is permitted. We often eat outside!
>
>Personally I just don't see why the governing bodies don't just leave it
>alone. Seriously, if a bar or restaurant wants to either allow or ban
>smoking, whose business is it? The non-smokers are free to go to the non-
>smoking restaurants and the smokers are free to go to the smoking
>establishments. All the laws do is force people to congregate on the
>sidewalks to get in their puffs. Too many busy-bodies in the world worrying
>about everyone else's habits and lifestyle when their real scrutiny should
>begin at their own front door.
>
>Michael


Since I live in the middle of the tobacco belt, getting legislation to
ban smoking ain't gonna happen. Individual restaurants and businesses
can ban smoking and several have. The local school system has
completely banned smoking and the hospital as banned it on the entire
campus. The hospital used to have a shed outside for smoking.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)