[Sloth]

Smokers who insist on smoking around people who don't want them to do so are evil -- but the gov't has no business telling private restaurants whether or not they can allow smoking.

[Just another Joe]

Smokers who insist on smoking around people who don't want them to do so are evil

I wouldn't say "evil" but maybe inconsiderate.

[Gabz]

Smokers who insist on smoking around people who don't want them to do so are evil -- but the gov't has no business telling private restaurants whether or not they can allow smoking.

I don't go along with you calling smokers evil - however, I do understand your point.

So, would you agree to allowing businesses to make their own decisions - and post signs saying it a smoking or non-smoking establishment?

That way everyone entering would know just what they were walking into??

[metesky]

Evil? You sucked up way too much goobermint and anti-smoker propaganda.

They may be inconsiderate, unthinking, unfeeling, self-centered clods, but not evil.

Maybe slothful?

[jim35]

Exactly who do you see smoking, around people who don't want it? For cryin' out loud, we're lucky to be allowed to smoke in our own cars, let alone in a public place! Fewer people smoking now than in a hundred years, and a hundred times more grousing about it. And these "facts" that keep being spewed? Even if it were true about second hand smoke, that wouldn't give the gov't the right to decide for a restaurant owner what their policy on smoking should be. It's a legal substance. Let the owners and customers decide; we don't need the nanny state to do it for us.