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Seriously, if you and I were to be eating in the same restaurant and you light up, tell me can you keep the second hand smoke to your table only? No, I suspect not. Name for me one act that I can do at my table which would interfere with your dining experience the way that your cigarette smoke with interfere with mine.

Dude, common courtesy is that you just don't do that (light up out of the blue in an enclosed space). I can't remember ever seeing this happen. I live in a big metro area and frequent a number of restaurants. A couple allow smoking. It's never an issue.

If you go to a diner and there's an ashtry on every table - guess what? It's a smoking restaurant.

Even though, I never smoke in restaurants. I have lit up in the infrequent times I've been in bars.

That is the difference between you and me--I don't want to mess with the air you are breathing in the restaurant but you seem to have no qualms spreading your second hand smoke around the room. I don't care if you smoke--go ahead but please don't think that a seperate section or partition segregates your habit from those who don't smoke.

From a restaurant's perspective, there is nothing different between us. I never smoke in restaurants. I know a number of people who are the same. The difference between us is that you seek to impose your will for completely smoke free dining on every establishment everywhere.

You could easily say when you're seated "Is there a non-smoking section?" And if no - just go elsewhere. But to ramrod your social preferences through the courts? That's just plain wrong.

I'm a non-smoker, who has never smoked and hates the smell. When i go eat, this is what I do

" You could easily say when you're seated "Is there a non-smoking section?" And if no - just go elsewhere. But to ramrod your social preferences through the courts? That's just plain wrong. "

It has never occured to me to limit someone else's freedom because I don't like a smell. Actually, that sounds like something a 2 year old would do. Business owners respond to one thing, profit. If enough customers demand something, they will do it.