Reply #39: I don't know how old you are. I'm old enough to remember when bars AND restaurants could "choose".

[Warren DeMontague]

There was no such thing as a "non smoking" restaurant. You sucked it up. Eventually they tried the "non-smoking section" like the smoke stays in one part of the joint (or the airplane) ...oh, yeah. That worked GREAT.

Back in those days, you couldn't go ANYWHERE and breathe.

Anyway, you're not going to change my mind on this. I grew up in a house full of smoke, where we had to roll the windows down on -20 degree days on the way to school just to be able to breathe in the car. I watched my dad die of lung cancer. Historically, you're on the losing side of this issue, and if you need to smoke in places like, say, California, you will need to go outside to do it. If you want to pretend that is 'fascism', or 'totalitarianism', that having to go outside before lighting up your fully legal product makes you a poor, persecuted minority (yes, that's the plan... we're coming to take your smokes away... Just like we're coming for the gun owners' guns, MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!! :eyes:) then by all means, nail yourself up to that cross.

You're not changing my mind, and more importantly, the laws aren't going away.