What gripes me is: the City Councils went in and forced a lot of restaurants to go smoke free, like here in Maine. Back in 1999, the proprietors had no idea at that time that they could have fought it. Maybe restaurants in Maine folded.
It's not that we CAN'T go without smoking while eating in a restaurant. But it's always been our right and now, like I said, there are three bar/restaurants left up here that have smoking sections. Why would we in our right mind, go out to spend our hard earned money in a place that no longer accommodated us! Nope! We refuse. It's the principal.
But all across the US, where the anti's are pushing for more smoking bans, i.e. New York City, the proprietors have now realized that they CAN fight these bans. And they are getting very vocal about it as well.
It's really a sad situation when we have so much crises in the world to be arguing about a petty assed issue like second hand smoke. I just hope we Americans can have our own places.......non smoking and smoking places , where we all have the right to spend our money. I bet Osama loves reading our in fighting in here.