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My cousin died from lung cancer caused by secondhand smoke. Her smoker husband is still alive in his 60's. I was sick every winter when my mother smoked. I haven't had bronchitis since I left home. There's more to the smoking/health equation than one person's anecdotal evidence. If they want customers for the restaurant, they should have a non-smoking section. Some people don't want to pay to stink, and others don't want to deal with the health issues. A simple, free-market situation ...

The above is internally inconsistent - that is, you contradict your own reasoning.

Did I miss something?

16 posted on 01/10/2003 8:21:01 PM PST by patton (Let A=B, and B=1. Then AB=AA, AB=A(^2), AB-B(^2)=A(^2)-B(^2), B(A-B)=(A+B)(A-B), B=A+B, A=0.So 1=0.)

19 posted on 01/10/2003 8:24:05 PM PST by patton (Let A=B, and B=1. Then AB=AA, AB=A(^2), AB-B(^2)=A(^2)-B(^2), B(A-B)=(A+B)(A-B), B=A+B, A=0.So 1=0.)

I guess (my fault!) you missed my point, which was that cigarette smoke, or any other toxin, affects different people in different ways. So any generalizations, whether it's Mike Ditka's "Cigarette smoke won't hurt you!" or the tobacco nazis' line, are not applicable to everyone.