"PHT" wrote in message
It may cost the restaurant some money, but it is possible to have a vent
system that would draw the smoke out and keep it from the non-smokers. But
even then there are non-smokers that would complain no matter what the
situation.

They had those separated and filtered smoking rooms in Ontario, but they
were eventually outlawed and it's now illegal.

Let's face it. Smoking is and has been one of the most costly (lives *and*
money) blights in human history. Whether one is a smoker or anti-smoking
Nazi, the cost to civilization at large is absolutely enormous. On a guess,
I'd wager that smoking has killed more people than all the wars combined and
cost more health care money than all the bankruptcies (current and past)
combined.

If smoking *only* affected the individuals doing so, then what they smoke
would be their business only. But, it's not true and never will be. Society
always shoulders the lion's share of the inevitable health care costs that
smoker's bring onto themselves.