On Sun, 29 May 2016 11:25:59 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 29 May 2016 09:29:52 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Sun, 29 May 2016 10:17:59 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 29 May 2016 06:19:08 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Sun, 29 May 2016 03:23:22 -0400, wrote:



Explain why there can't be a "smoker bar" or restaurant. If you are
offended or fear for your life, don't go near the place.

Employees.

We abolished slavery 151 years ago. If the employees don't want to
work around smokers, they can seek employment elsewhere.

Unsafe work place. There you have it.

How is it unsafe? With any reasonable amount of fresh air makeup on
the HVAC system this minuscule amount of smoke is harmless. If the
wait staff is smoking too (and a very high percentage do), what
difference would it make anyway?


Wait staff might have non-smokers. You ever been in a smokey bar?
In most of them the HVAC is customers opening and closing the when the
come or go.
Anyway, that's the justification where they have the laws.
As a smoker, I have no problem with this. Ever been in a restaurant
and the guy at the next table lights a cigar?
I don't like it, and it's probably as disagreeable to a non-smoker
when I light a cigarette.


We had 2 restaurants here, same franchise, less than a mile apart. The
owner wanted to make one smoking and one non-smoking. The smoke
ninnies were not happy with that and he ended up closing the smoking
one. This was a BBQ joint that was full of hickory smoke all the time,
selling high fat foods. (the last place I know of that still fries
potatoes in animal fat) Health freaks would not go to either of them.

Yeah, it's ridiculous.

Yet it was applauded by the smoke nazis.
I don't smoke but I do defend the right to do it if you want and I am
not going to use pseudo science and skewed "studies" to tell them they
can't. The original EPA study that is the base for most of these
claims was roundly rejected by just about everyone who actually looked
at the methodology.

As long as it's not prohibited outside I don't have a problem with it.
That's when it's plain stupid.