<br /><br />I don't smoke either except for an occasional cigar (outside). There is a reasonably nice lake in the Calabasas area. Imagine that you can't sit on your boat and enjoy a pipe or a cigar. Simply amazing. OK, OK I'll run the blower simultaneously so the safety police don't get me . . .
They're in the closet having a smoke with their liberal friends from PETA who are giving mouth to mouth to an endangered pit viper who ate a rodent that was genetically altered from second hand smoke in the city park.
<br />I will say this however....<br />The loss of revenue from lower cigarette sales has put a hurt on Wa. state...<br />& the legislature is scrambling for some new ways to dig into pockets.....<br />Originaly being from N.J., I can say that casinos have always held a special status, because of the revenue they generate....Jobs, tax rev, etc......<br />The casinos are the one sacred cow/golden goose you don't mess with in the 'Garden State' .....JK
Just to play devils advocate, it wasnt too long ago non smokers were in the minority. The squeaky wheel rule is what got the non smoking bans off the ground.
<br /><br />Like most things extreme, I think this law is going too far. To be honest, I appreciate the laws pertaining to not smoking in eating establishments. Telling someone they cant smoke a legal cigar/cigarette/pipe outside is ludicrious. Next they will try to regulate smoking in the home. After that, who knows what is next.I agree, if a business owner wishes to cater to a certain clientele, then fine, but a "NON-Smoking" section in a restaurant is like having a no-peeing section in a pool. You can maintain that smokeaters etc. make it unnoticeable, but thats like putting a band-aid on a hemmorage. If an establishment wants to be exclusively smoking, then be it, but if they want the non-smoking dollars, then they should have to be exclusively no smoking.<br /><br />As for outside, I recently went into a building that was no smoking and had to walk past the shivering smokers outside. Even though they were outside, and they were not exhaling at me, it was still like walking into a wall of smoke. It was quite offensive. I do not smoke, my mother died from emphysema caused by smoking and I am dead set against it. However I do think that a total smoking ban is going too far. However where to draw the line is elusive.<br /><br />Keeping in mind that second hand smoke is proven to have ill-health affects a point to ponder: No smoker knows which cigarette will give them cancer, if any.
