HeyBub wrote:
Upscale wrote:
"PHT" wrote in message
I also seldom eat out anymore. Smoker's do longer have any rights in
this country. It's getting so that many rights are disappearing that
people once had.

Sure, you've got plenty of rights. Smoke all you want, burn your
lungs out, it's none of my business. Just don't do it where it
bothers me when I'm going about my business.

I admit it, I used to smoke. I quit some thirty years ago. Now, the
odour of cigarettes and the smell of nicotine comes close to making
me physically sick. I'm not being hypocritical, it's none of my
business what you smoke, what you eat or what you do in your life as
long as it doesn't have an effect on my life. But when it does, how
do you think it should be handled? My going out and eating in a
restaurant doesn't affect you at all. You going out and eating in the
same restaurant and smoking does affect me. What's your solution?

Let the market decide.

Smoke-free restaurants and smoking restaurants. Or separate sections
in the same restaurant.

This simple solution is, however, insufficient for the True Believer
(see the book by the same name by Eric Hoffer).

People mind their own business when it's worth minding. When it's
not, they take their mind off their own meaningless affairs by
minding someone else's business.

These folks are, nevertheless, a source of some amusement. Whenever
some granny-lady starts whacking me with her umbrella and screeching
in a voice that has not endeared her to any number of husbands: "You
godless communist, you can't smoke here!," I simply reply: "It's all
right, madam, I'm French."

Next time, try, "Being French, it is incumbent upon me to ask you this
question, madam. Do you screw."

With any luck she'll pop a blood vessel and the world will be a better
place.