I dont smoke anymore, but I'm all about personal freedoms.

I started smoking because it goes good after smoking pot...

It's brilliant after sex too.

And after a feast

Or first thing in the morning with a coffee...

or after a big poop

why wait? some guy tonight was talking about smoking while taking a big poop.

i'm tempted to try it...

Can't be bothered to read all of the pages but my $0.02 is this;

Smoking should be allowed in bars, and places typically frequented by adults who know what they're getting themselves into. I know, or knew I guess, that going to a bar there was going to be smoke there. And I"m fine with that.

But in restaurants where there are children, there shouldn't be as much as a smoking section. I have a 5 year old, and do my best to keep smoke away from her all the time. I don't smoke in the house, I don't smoke in the car.. I just generally don't smoke when she's around.

So yeah, smoke in bars, not in restaurants.

*edit* and the "workplace" thing needs an ammendment as well. I used to work in a factory where the air was so thick with smoke that you would literally be blowing black soot out of your nose for as much as an entire weekend (after not being there for 2 or 3 days) But we weren't allowed a smoking section, even outside. Lame.

okay i'm a smoker. and i don't think that smoking should be allowed in public places. But with bars i think its different. people can choose to leave if they don't like it. I think there should at least be a smoking area. its so rude the way smokers are treated. like, my college went became a non-smoking campus and didn't even give us a designated smoking area.... so people had to cross the street and stand there shunned in the cold. its just rude.

in short yes, no, yes, kinda, WTF?

i won't read a few years worth of posts either but... i disagree with smoking in bars. when i lived in Ottawa it was MOTHERF*CKING COLD during the winter yet every bar had a bustling patio section year round since you couldn't smoke inside. i used to think the same way (that the ban was stupid) but then i remembered how crappy i felt when i used to go to bars before the ban took effect and how much nastier the hangover was, and how much nastier my clothes smelled. for me, winter patios are where it's at (at least when the owners know how to build them to shelter the patrons from the wind).

that workplace situation is just messed up. how is it that you weren't legally entitled to an outdoor smoking section. heck there are plenty of places out here that have had to build actual enclosures for the smokers.