[Gabz]

I love it!!!!

I walked into one of the local corner stores the other day for something and was pleasantly surprised to see the clerk sitting at the desk with an ashtray and cigarette burning.

I have met very few people here that don't smoke.

The owner of one place we go to told me point blank she would fight tooth and nail against any such thing. But she is not looking to see any such ideas floating around anytime in the near future. When anyone comes in asking for non-smoking she is perfectly happy to accomodate them, she has what could literally be considered a seperate building and that is her non-smoking section. In the nearly 3 years we have been going to this place I have only seen people in there once - granted I am usually there during the daytime, so at night it may be different.

[Texan5]

Only one of the restaurants in the community we live in has a non-smoking section, and the only time I have seen anyone in it is on Sunday at noon, right after the hardline southern Baptist church three blocks away ends its Sunday service. Otherwise, it is empty. I, too, love to walk into the feed store, the hardware store, general store, liquor store, etc and see the owner or clerk puffing away, just like it used to be everywhere in the old days of real personal liberty. Most everyone out here smokes, too-even my dentist.