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Basic manners should preclude individuals from undertaking activities which inflict nasty-smelling fumes on complete strangers. Society rightfully would frown on my behaviour if I made a habit of farting towards other diners every fifteen seconds; likewise, if I walked around spraying slightly-diluted excement all over people (in an oil-base, so that it didn't simply evaporate), folks who smelt bad all day as a result of my actions would have a right to be upset. And I arrogate to myself the right to be similary infuriated when I STINK al lday as a result of some nicotine addict's requirement to satiate their chemincal dependency and shower me with the effluent.

Can you explain to me why virtually every anti-smoker nico-Nazi I've encountered here and elsewhere is obsessed with bodily functions and scatalogical references?

DUDE!! You have every right in the world to put your own money where your big mouth is and open a FART-FRIENDLY restaurant!! Fart all you want, but keep it there where only other farters will be affected. Then those who CHOOSE to work in a fart factory can do so; those who CHOOSE to patronize such an odious establishment can do so; and those of us who just want to socialize with other smokers have that choice, too.

CLEARLY it depends critically on the CONCENTRATION and DURATION of such exposure - bar staff in hotels, for example, face a high concentration and prolonged duration, wheras diners face a low concentration and short duration.

Monitored studies from DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratories show hospitality staff are exposed to about SIX CIGARETTES A YEAR, not enough to be of concern. Hardly the 24/7 exposure for 40 years necessary to reach those statistically insignificant findings from EPA and WHO. Those who would be bothered by six cigarettes a year could always go elsewhere to work. No one has the absolute right to work in any particular place, a small fact that antis tend to overlook. But at least you got the "dose makes the poison," and most antis can't grasp that.

Smokers are just people who, as teenagers, were SO desperate to belong to ANY group that they took great pains to overcome the natural revulsion to inhaling burning vegetable leaves. that sort of low self-opinion is sad,

Bullshit. Sounds to me like a whole heap of sour grapes, like maybe you were the class nerd that no one liked.

but it is NOT an excuse to ruin my capacity to enjoy a decent meal. Otherwise we just have a free-for-all, and anyone who makes my shirt stin kas a result of their smoking, risks me standing on a chair and urinating all over THEIR clothes.

Oh, stop acting like a jerk. The ONLY way my smoking has a chance to ruin your meal is if you CHOOSE to eat in a smoker-friendly restaurant. Aren't you grown up enough to make that decision for yourself? REAL men are.

You'd have to "stand on a chair," huh?....