Actually, I'm a phone sanitizer;)
I am an engineer by day and occasionally, a waiter /restaurant manager by night. I have had to work in restaurants to make ends meet. Sometimes very smoky restaurants. So I have some knowledge of the subject.
As for the "canard" that second hand smoke is harmful, do you deny that tobacco smoke contains carcinogens? Do you deny that smoking causes serious illnesses? Can you cite a scientific study that proves that heavy exposure to second-hand smoke is hamless?
You forgot nanny-statist.
I spent 15 hours working at the local Moose Lodge over 3 days last week. I guarantee you I was exposed to more toxins and noxious fumes in the 3 hours I spent cooking in the kitchen than I did in the 12 hours tending bar, in a smoker friendly bar.
I get paid to tend bar, cooking is volunteer time - in other words - I CHOOSE TO DO IT. Just like you choose to enter an establishment that permits smoking.
As to your canard in a previous post about owners not going smoke-free voluntarily, you're out of your mind. When Washington D.C. banned smoking in bars and restaurants more than 75% were already smoke-free.......BY THE OWNERS' CHOICE. What more do you people want?
Our (formerly*)favorite restaurant has been smoke-free since it openned, it never stopped us from going there. One of our favorite lunch places has also always been that way, and that owner is extremely vocal in his opposition to a total ban because he doesn't wish to lose his clientele.
Your support of government forced smoking bans is destroying the market niche business owners have created for themselves by going smoke-free on their own.
*(formerly*) favorite restaurant has nothing to do with the smoke-free policy.........I don't do business with people that cater to illegal aliens and stopped patronizing the establishment after the owner was arrested for running a brothel that caters to illegals.
I remember that time I had to work as an alligator wrestler to make ends meet. It was the only job available in the entire universe. Talk about risky.
You have to work in "very smoky" restaurants? Who would believe this?
Do you deny that smoking causes serious illnesses?
So what? Life causes serious illnesses, resulting in death 100% of the time. And what does this have to do with the death ray known as "second-hand" smoke?
Can you cite a scientific study that proves that heavy exposure to second-hand smoke is hamless?