[metesky]

Admittedly, this doesn't help 10-year-olds with bronchitis every winter.

Two points:

1.) The bars I hang around in and have drunk(?) in for the last forty years do not allow ten year olds to belly up for a cold one.

2.) All normal adults avoid places that label themselves as "Family Restaurants" like the plague. What sane person could enjoy a meal surrounded by ankle bitters and little Yawehs?

My mother was a waitress and didn't allow us to eat out with them until we were in our mid-teens.

After all, childhood is for children and adulthood is for adultery. Er, anyhow, treating us as if we were all ten year olds is not gonna work.

[Tax-chick]

Cute! I was, of course, referring to my experience of the effects of other people's smoking (at home), not making a point about what people do in bars ... I've never been to one ... or restaurants.

I think I need to get out of this discussion, because I obviously sound like I'm defending a ban on smoking in restaurants, when I'm not. Some days I'm just not all here.