[Jerez2]

For the last time: Bars are not health clubs. Nobody goes there to live a healthy lifestyle. They WANT to smoke. Let 'em. People who work in bars, ditto. There are plenty of other places they can work if they don't like being surrounded by dangerous things like smoke, alcohol, and tipsy customers.

Restaurants are a different story. You want to TASTE your food, smoking ban makes sense there. But BARS?????

On another rant: this whole Indian thing is crazy. The idea of reservations was to let them live their traditional lifestyle. What has happened in the last few years is against all common sense. These people are no more Indian than I am (1/16) and are just looking for a legal loophole.

What a bunch of crap. I don't recognize US as the land of the Free... hardly, anymore.

[Gabz]

Restaurants are a different story. You want to TASTE your food, smoking ban makes sense there.

I understand the point you are making - however, shouldn't it be up to the owner based upon the desires of his/her clientele, as opposed to government mandates?????

I have no problem with the business owner who chooses to go non-smoking, but these government imposed smoking bans are no more fair to those that had chosen that route than to the ones who didn't.