[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.

[383rr]

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

No, I don't think it works that way. If you are tolerant and courteous, then you are. Some people on both sides of the spectrum are not. I don't see why anyone should be "tolerant" of me. I play by the rules, and am as decent as I can be. And, flat-out, tobacco users are being ostracized. Do you think everyone else's rights trump yours? That's just not fair. It's called mob rule.