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English's in Salisbury has a smoking section. I know this because I eat there now instead of the one in Delmar when I am on my way to Dover.

You eat at places with buffet's but are worried about a little bit of tobacco smoke????? Your priorities regarding health issues are a bit warped. You don't know if the guy ging through the buffet ahead of you that was breathing all over the food has TB, do you? Or if the other guy washed his hands before touvhing anything.

Since you're so familiar with the business along the Maryland/Delaware line, walk into the Bar at Pomeroys and asked Mrs. Pomeroy if her business has picked up at all. Not her package store business, her bar business. Talk to any bar owner that has a business close to the Maryland line. Many of the smaller ones in out of the way places are no longer enforcing the ban because it was killing their business. I know this because I spent more than a week in the spring going into every single one in Kent and Sussex county picking up post cards to legislators about amending the ban. And while I was in them I spoke with managers and owners and waitresses and bartenders who had all seen their tips drastically drop and have their hours cut and co-workers laid off.

As I said I have nothing against any business going smoke free by the owners choice or business decision based on customer request. My problem is the government imposed bans on businesses that saw no need to go that way based upon their clientele. What problem do you have with that??

I have waterfront property in Bethel on Broad Creek and have closed two commercial Rt 13 and Stien Hwy businesses in Seaford due to idiots in Delaware Government. I refused to pay to put "improved curbed entrances" on the public right a way at my expense because the entrances I had were fine for 20 years. Delaware would not give me a auto dealers license until I installed the "new improved entrance". So I took a multimillion dollar business to business friendly Florida causing a loss of income and jobs to Delaware. I no longer pay any taxes except property taxes to Delaware. So my anti smoking has nothing to do with property rights.

I love your reference to places with buffets. They are great for people who are too cheap to leave a tip.

When the big salad bar phase was in about 10 years ago I refused to use them because of the fact that they were so unsanitary.

As far as the TB commentary from hotshot,it is really reaching below the belt as far as I'm concerned--my father died at age 31 of TB.