[Clemenza]

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A CASE OF A WAITER WHO HAS DIED FROM SECOND HAND SMOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you don't like the environment, don't work there. NOBODY PUTS A GUN UP TO YOUR HEAD TO WORK AT A SMOKING RESTAURANT!!!

BTW: Aside from an occasional cigar that I enjoy at a tobacco shop, I don't smoke and I don't hang out with smokers as yes, I find it to be irritating. That has not turned me into a nanny-stater, however, and I will continue to defend the rights of people to have a CHOICE in terms of places to eat, drink and socialize.

[VRWC_minion]

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A CASE OF A WAITER WHO HAS DIED FROM SECOND HAND SMOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its not necessary for smoke to be deadly. Employees should not be forced to breath smoke, deadly or not.

[E Rocc]

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A CASE OF A WAITER WHO HAS DIED FROM SECOND HAND SMOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If true, this would put smoking bans up at least 1-0 in the mortality score. A bouncer got killed in New York City attempting to enforce Bloomberg's Folly.

To me, the most offensive thing about these idiotic laws is the smoke nannies don't ticket the people who are smoking. They ticket the bar that is "allowing" smoking. This proves its all about money, the bar has a fixed address and a liquor license and is more likely to pay the mordida. Meanwhile, it's the people allegedly being "protected", the bar employees, left holding onto the clintony end of the law enforcement stick.

-Eric

[kegler4]

"THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A CASE OF A WAITER WHO HAS DIED FROM SECOND HAND SMOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Proof? How do you know this?

Can somebody post their research showing second-hand smoke never causes health problems for anybody? I'd like to read it.