Smokey no more
Looks like Mayor White is looking after Houston’s lungs these days. The Houston Chronicle reports a proposed restaurant smoking ban to be enacted over the next two years.
Although I am certainly no stranger to the cancer stick industry, I rather like the idea. I personally hate taking kids/grandparents out to eat only to have them engulfed in a haze of nicotine, just because we’re seated too close to the smoking section.
Bars are a different story to me though (I certainly don’t take children or the elderly to those..). What are your thoughts?
I am a non-smoker so I definitely like the idea. I think it is a good compromise. When I went to visit a friend in Round Rock it was very strange not to be asked “Smoking or Non-Smoking’. I guess if this goes through it will be like that here too.
Well, I just quit a couple of days ago, so it looks like I did this just in time. On the other hand, I don’t mind smoking sections in restaurants whatsoever. Even when I am a non-smoker, I allow people to smoke in my house or car or whatever. Maybe it’s a cultural thing, because I have family members (in France) who have never smoked but have always allowed smoking in their homes. My American family members, however, don’t share quite the same philosophy.
I’m a non-smoker, non-child, non-elderly, and I know I would enjoy a smoke free environment even at a bar. Intentionally breathing smoke/chemicals into your lungs is a choice, and if I chose to do it, I would go outside out of respect for those who don’t. There’s that old cliche, “My right to swing my fist ends where your face begins.” I think the same should apply to smoking and your neighbor’s lungs.