Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Thu 05 Jun 2008 05:47:12a, Michael "Dog3" told us...
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>> Wayne Boatwright >
>> 6.120: in
>> rec.food.cooking
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>>> 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
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> EXACTLY! Like they have nothing better to do.
>
The damned politicians here are talking about banning smoking within 50
feet of buildings instead of just inside them. Seems some folks have
been bitching about smokers in the outside waiting area at our airport.
Sheesh! Give me a break. I went cold turkey on a five-pack a day habit
fourteen years ago and the smokers don't bother me. <Twitch, twitch?\>