On Thu 05 Jun 2008 12:35:40p, George Shirley told us...

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 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?\>
>

In AZ smoking is banned within 25 feet of building entrances.

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Wayne Boatwright
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