Non Smoking Restaurants in NC ?

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I am against any laws banning smoking though I have not problem with individuals companies banning it, but if one wants to allow it I say it is not the governments bussiness to get involved.

I don't know if any candidates in North Carolina are advocating for such a thing--given our tobacco roots, I highly doubt it. After all, we just got the members of the General Assembly to give up smoking in the Legislative Office Buildings.

My time in DC, where there is a smoking ban, has made this idea more palpable to me than it was before.

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There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed. - Robert F. Kennedy

You don't have the right to go to public places with a bottle of weed killer and spray its contents whereever the wind may carry them. You don't have the right to force food down other peoples' throats. You don't have the right to spike a common punch bowl. You don't have the right to swing your fist out wildly regardless of whose nose is proximate.

I don't care if people smoke. I do care if they make me smoke. They are making me smoke unless they are confining their toxic activities to their own cars or living rooms. (It's still surprising to me to notice how many folks are smoking in cars with rolled up windows and children in the back seat, but then, denial is an amazing quality.)

This concept that anyone has the "right" to smoke in places where other people are breathing is absurd.

Anyone who has read about particulates knows that the particulates from cigarette smoke settle in food, in water, on plates, on eating utensils -- whereever the smoke drifts. The idea of smoking sections is going to fade because it doesn't work and it isn't clean or safe.

I have to admit that despite my strong feelings when it comes to this concept of "rights" and smokers, I myself don't despise the very smell of it as I once did. This is because I fell very hard for a smoker and, inexplicably, put up with it in all kinds of venues (except my house or car).

Sometimes I even like the smell of a certain type mixed with a little salt air. (If I were to admit this to my father, I'm certain he would disown me). I have sometimes WISHED I smoked because I could see that it seemed to bring relief to people under stress.

But "right" to smoke where unwilling breathers are present? No. And don't give me that tired old argument about car exhaust. Sometimes a person MUST use a vehicle for certain essential tasks. You don't HAVE to smoke on me or that child in the aisle over.