[Skooz]

As a Louisiana resident who frequents restaurants with my family, it will be nice to finally be able to go out to dinner and not be assaulted by other peoples' smoky excrement. Non-smoking areas are a joke because the excrement invariably wafts through the whole restaurant anyway.

On the other hand, what the heck business is it of the government to disallow smoking in PRIVATE establishments? This is clearly a matter for the market, NOT government, to decide.

Property rights, what few we have left, anyway, are slowly but surely being wiped away by government nannies. And once they are gone, they will never return.

[SheLion]

As a Louisiana resident who frequents restaurants with my family, it will be nice to finally be able to go out to dinner and not be assaulted by other peoples' smoky excrement. Non-smoking areas are a joke because the excrement invariably wafts through the whole restaurant anyway.

You are such a nice guy and what couth!  Wow! Keep up the good work.  America needs more hate.

On the other hand, what the heck business is it of the government to disallow smoking in PRIVATE establishments? This is clearly a matter for the market, NOT government, to decide.

At least you recognize that this should be left up to the private business owner and his patrons and not the government.

[babydoll22]

As a Louisiana resident who frequents restaurants with my family, it will be nice to finally be able to go out to dinner and not be assaulted by other peoples' smoky excrement. Non-smoking areas are a joke because the excrement invariably wafts through the whole restaurant anyway.

I am a smoker and could not agree with you more. I would never light up a cigarette in a restaurant, even if there is a smoking section.

For me it is not a rights issue but a manners issue. I think it is rude to subject other diners to my smoke.

I think that if smokers were more courteous. non smokers would be more tolerant.

[Conservababe]

I visited my sister in Breaux Bridge last week for a few days. On the first day, I requested to go to Crawfish Town for lunch, a place I fondly remembered through out the years I have been gone. As we drove into the huge parking lot, it seemed almost empty. When I commented on it, my sister laughed and told me that the place had changed ownership and had no smoking section any longer.

I told her to just turn around and we would go somewhere else, as I was not going to spend two hours peeling and eating crawfish without a cigarette.

We went to Landrys, which has a nice smoking section, and had a wonderful lunch.

With Cajuns being able to have their own seafood "boils" and cooking just as good as the restaurants, I see the restaurants losing business.