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Originally Posted by AChimp
What don't you people understand about public health? If I may get back to my burger analogy, according to your reasoning, because it's his own private property, the restaurant owner can prepare food any damn way he pleases, even if that means sliding the meat along the floor. Why do health codes even exist, if business owners could do whatever they wanted on their own private property?
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Health codes exist to protect comsumers from unsafe
buisness practices. This is something entirely different. We're talking about consumer behaviors. Business owners should have the right to decide whether or not smoking is allow on the premises. Public health codes should require the business owners to clearly mark their establishment as smoke-free or smoke-friendly, so that consumers may make a decision. We shouldn't need the government to hold our hands here.
For what it's worth, I don't smoke while eating, and prefer non-smoking restaraunts, but I fully support a restaraunt owner's right to provide a smoking section.
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Originally Posted by Bobo
"Whats so wrong with designated places for smokers to go and relax and drink/smoke? Especially when the Owner and employees are OK with it?"
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Exactly!