[altair]

Why do you go to restaurants that allow smoking? There are plenty of restaurants in Tokyo that don't allow smoking.

[sushiman]

Why do Americans always assume that every foreigner who is in Japan lives in Tokyo ? I live in Kyushu in southern Japan , in a small town in Kumamoto . EVERY restaurant I have ever been to allows smoking , and had NO " smoking section " . No doubt some family restaurants in big cities
have smoking sections , but most other types of restaurants do not . I don't frequent family restaurants , hence my trouble with smokers .

[Great Dane]

There are plenty of restaurants in Tokyo that don't allow smoking.

But then he would have nothing to complain about. :-}