[VRWC_minion]

If you don't like the smoke there, start your own smoke free bar or drink at a smoke free restaruant.

I believe that the free market would eventually ban tobacco from restaruants. I don't think gov't should do so, except that the argument for protecting employees from SHS is compelling when bars and restaurants are the only business that is exempt.

However, my POV is moot. The politicians are on a roll here and its not going to be stopped unless the smokers could change their image.

So, far the smokers on this page are not in any compromising mood and the consequence of that is they are going to get killed in the poliical field.

[Just another Joe]

except that the argument for protecting employees from SHS is compelling when bars and restaurants are the only business that is exempt.

You've already admitted that argument doesn't hold water.
Trying to get the subject changed?

[supercat]

I believe that the free market would eventually ban tobacco from restaruants.

The free market has banned tobacco from many restaurants. I doubt it would ever ban it from all, since there is and likely always will be a certain clientelle that will prefer any smoking restaurant to any non-smoking restaurant. If there are no other smoking restaurants, a restaurant that allows smoking would be able to claim that entire clientelle for itself.

[Gabz]

So, far the smokers on this page are not in any compromising mood and the consequence of that is they are going to get killed in the poliical field.

This crock of beans is coming out of the keyboard of the same person, who when confronted by evidence to the contrary of what smokers can and have done, on another thread, sort of, kind of, just maybe, NEVER RESPONDED.

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