Having a smoking section in a public restaurant is a bit like having a peeing section in a public pool!
Excellent analogy!
Thanks.
"Having a smoking section in a public restaurant is a bit like having a peeing section in a public pool!" is not a good analogy at all, for an American restaurant. Might be OK in a Nazi-run country, but not America!
"Public" restaurants are privately owned. The government has no business telling the owner whether or not he may allow smoking.
In a Constitutional America, the law must be: "Owner's business, owner's rules."
If you don't like the owner's choice of clientel (i.e., smokers), go somewhere else!
Nothing personal, pal. I know you are a non-smoker, but it is for sure that the silly rules banning smoking in restaurants is pure Fascism, and not worthy of a FRee Republic!
In a FRee Republic, the owner decides how to operate his/her business, and customers choose to patronize or not patronize an establishment based on the owner's marketing strategy and execution thereof.
Repeat after me, class: "IT IS NONE OF THE GOVERNMENT'S BUSINESS WHETHER A BUSINESS ALLOWS OR DOES NOT ALLOW IT'S PATRONS TO SMOKE!
What is it about NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS you anti-smoking Nazis don't understand?
EXCELLENT?? What side are YOU on?!