Smoking Ban

[BDC]

Bad ban. Just because you find a habit disgusting, does not mean you should be able to ban in on another's property.

Crazed Rabbit

What? So I should be able to cover everyone else around me in highly carcinagenic ooze because I enjoy it? It's be banned immediately.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Noone's forcing the staff to work there

No-one's forcing the staff to work in the (hypothetical) horribly dangerous factories, either.

Do you think we should repeal all industrial safety laws?

[doc_bean]

No-one's forcing the staff to work in the (hypothetical) horribly dangerous factories, either.

Do you think we should repeal all industrial safety laws?

Please, this is a strawman argument. People just want to sit in restaurants without smelling horribly afterwards, a sentiment I can agree with. But let's not turn this into something it isn't. Lots of people work in chemical plants where the risk of cancer and other conditions is 'hightened', not too dangerous, but comparable to what restaurants workers have to live with. (and those factories are well within regulations too).

How is working in such a restaurant worse than walking the streets of a smog filled city ?

What I don't understand is why restaurants haven't invested more in the comfort of non-smokers over the years (some have though). A good restaurant where you aren't at risk of smelling someone else's exhaled smoke sounds like a good idea.

These rules (they are in place in belgium already) are pure populism.