Reply #46: I'm heartily sick

[SheilaT]

of the claim that banning smoking will make restaurants and bars shut down. If that were true, as I pointed out above, there wouldn't be a single place in California where you could get a meal or a drink. Oddly enough, that's not the case.

Smokers just don't get it about how much they reek, and how their smoking makes their surroundings reek. I personally avoid places that smell of cigarette smoke.

The problem about the "choice" crap is that as soon as one person lights up a cigarette, the entire room smells it. Not too mention the second-hand smoke argument. And yes, second hand smoke really does do harm, despite what smokers like to pretend.