[Your Nightmare]

You can choose to go to another restaurant

So your presumed right to smoke is greater than my right to breathe clean, healthy air? Don't think so.

If you like to smoke with your meals, you have a choice to stay at home.

[Area51]

The vehicle you use to drive to that establishment and bitch about, creates a bit of a stink too.

But I bet you only picky about what OTHER people do.
Hillary would be proud.

[E Rocc]

You can choose to go to another restaurant

So your presumed right to smoke is greater than my right to breathe clean, healthy air? Don't think so.

If you like to smoke with your meals, you have a choice to stay at home.

The choice properly belongs to the owner of the establishment. That's the point we're trying to make. Not with Big Brother, making these decisions on "behalf" of those who might not make the Proper ones.

-Eric

[SheLion]

If you like to smoke with your meals, you have a choice to stay at home.

You don't like the smell of smoke, then YOU stay home! How's that!

The world doesn't rotate on your A$$!

[grania]

So your presumed right to smoke is greater than my right to breathe clean, healthy air? Don't think so.

I really don't see why the argument isn't obvious here (and I'm a former smoker, so I'm not defending my right to smoke; I'm defending a lifestyle).

Let's try it this way. Assume Fred opens a restaurant "Fred's Fried Fish". And all he sells is Fried Fish, French Fries, Fried Bread, you name it...everything you can get at Fred's is at least 95% grease. Well, lets say Wilma thinks greasy food is disgusting, so she can't anything to eat at Fred's even though they have the best darn cavepaintings anywhere.

So what does Wilma do? Does she demand that Fred get rid of the disgusting grease that permeates everything and offers bark and leaf salads? Or does she take her business elsewhere, to a restaurant that has what she likes?

Get it? The owner of the restaurant should make these business decisions...not Wilma. She votes by taking her business elsewhere.