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I may not be exposed to smokers day in and day out, but waitresses, bartenders and other employees are constantly. As much as I wish smokers could smoke in public without affecting everyone else, they can't.

You still don't get it. The bar/restaurant business is a hospitility business. Why was it necessary for the government to get involved in controlling business owner's? Why couldn't the business owner let his patron's dictate how they want the atmosphere of the place?

You and your family will NEVER make up for all the lost revenue all over the state, just because you do not like the smell of smoke.

Let's be fair here. The world does not and should not rotate on one person's butt. If I do not like the surroundings in one bar/restaurant, I take my purse on down the street. I think that works out a heck of a lot better then the heavy hand of government.

The hospitality business hugh? And I suppose you think the epitomy of hospitality is for everyone else that doesn't smoke having to smell your filthy habit. My, isn't that hopsitable.

If I don't smoke, I don't stink you up. I can sit less than five feet from you and your clothing won't cost ten dollars to clean before you go to work the next day.

I have had to clean pants, shirt, coat and overcoat after visiting an establishment so full of smoke that it practicly made me sick just to patronize the place. And if I mention it, I'm the bad guy. LMAO, you folks take the cake.

You state that I still don't get it. How charming. One evening my wife and I took our two young children to the Spagetti Factory. We sat down and were eating dinner when it hit my wife and I at the same time. All of a sudden there was an overwhelming amount of smoke at our table.

When we walked in there were a couple of people smoking about twenty feet from our table. When we looked up there were ten people smoking within five feet of our table.

Well, you're right. One of us certainly doesn't get it.

As for the heavy hand of government, it really is a shame the government had to do what simple good manners could have accomplished all along.

One of my absolute favorite observations of all times is this. I can't tell you how many times I've had a smoker hold their cirgarette out in my direction because they didn't want the cigarette smoke in their eyes. While the line of smoke goes right in my face they're just happy as little larks looking in every direction but my face. Then they take another drag and momentarily forget to move their hand away from their own face. All of a sudden they get a line of smoke in their face and they rinkle up their puss, shake their head and fan the smoke away. Hell, smokers can't stand the same thing they do to non-smoking fellow patrons constantly. And it never even dawns on them.