[Protagoras]

My wife is allergic to cig. smoke so there is another example of how second-hand smoke can harm others.

Your wife cannot be harmed by smoke in this restaurant if she is not there.

[Naspino]

Your wife cannot be harmed by smoke in this restaurant if she is not there.

She's not there, but now Applebees is choosing her patronage over yours and she will be there -- will you? I think your statement is absurd though.

[Phantom Lord]

My wife is allergic to cig. smoke so there is another example of how second-hand smoke can harm others.

Some people have fatal allergies to peanuts. Should peanuts and peanut products be banned from public places?

[Naspino]

Your wife cannot be harmed by smoke in this restaurant if she is not there.

By the way -- she often doesn't choose to be attacked by cig. smoke (since she is allergic). Most of the time its forced on her (i.e. from a car in front of her at a red light, etc), or someone walking in to a place while smoking, in restraunts if someone starts smoking and it manages to find its way to the farthest point of non-smoking (happens often) then we are forced to leave. I'm not against cigs, but the people that maintain that it cannot hurt others irritate the bejessus out of me because they speak out of arrogance and ignorance.