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.
Still at it, eh Gabz? You’ll get all of these laws nationwide overturned if it’s the last thing you do. Ciggie dangling from your lips, you courageously pound out post after post bemoaning the dastardly effects of majority rule.
The solution is so simple, though. Just get an extra sentence tacked on to the equal rights amendment! It’s sure to pass one of these days and just a couple of words—”and our smoking friends, too” should do the trick. With a constitutional amendment, you and your smokin buddies will be protected as the beleagered minority you really are.