Really? What have I said that is either whiny or hypocritical?
I was using the plural "you" meaning a large segment of the anti-smoking crowd (I may have been painting with too broad a brush with respect to the individual you). They are whiny because the make far to big a deal out of second hand smoke. As a non-smoker, I'd be delighted if everybody stopped smoking this afternoon, provided everyone did it voluntarily. Neither is it the pressure from anti-smokers convince others to "reform" that bothers me. It is that they immediately, or almost immediately, begin agitating for legislation. Speical interest legislation is the single most liberty destroying activity a democracy can undertake. Once the anti-smokers succeed, the command and control thinkers will move on, and on and on legislating against anything and everything until they hit the things you hold precious. In fact, they already want to control your diet, what you watch, what you read, where your children go to school, what you can do with your land, the list is too long to itmeize.
They are hypocrites because, as I said, usually, they'll choose to be seated immediately, rather than wait for non-smoking.
btw, I wait the 30 minutes for the non-smoking table.
Always? Every time? What if you are in a hurry? How about if your with a smoker? What would you do in France, say, where the restaurant has no non-smoking section?
Interesting questions.
If I'm in a hurry, I don't go to restaurants where there is going to be a wait.
If I'm with a smoker (unusual but occasionally happens I suppose), I still request a non-smoking section because cigarette smoke combining with food is nauseating to me. The smokers that I know (and would have occasion to accompany to a restaurant) are understanding and considerate enough that they wait until later to light up.
When I was in France, it wasn't really a problem. In all the restaurants where we dined I think I only saw people smoking at their tables once or twice and it was far enough from my table that I didn't smell their cigarette smoke.