Yeeeehaaaaaaaa.. <wildly clapping> You go guy...you tell'm. I am fed up with all this anti smoking bs. How about banning alcohol..since that is responsible for a lot of drunk driving and people being killed too. I just quit smoking..2 months ago..but it still pisses me off when all this time is wasted on banning smoking..cripes..get a life. If I had the money..I'd open a restaurant just FOR smokers!!!!!!!!!! Ya notice congress doesn't do much about booze..and raising the taxes on that or banning it..uh huh. Aaaaaarrgh.. Jackie <-----still clapping for Charles ;)))) In a message dated 1/13/04 8:49:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, crbgfblab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: I say ban restaurants period! Better still, let's ban all combustible engines, shut down all the factories, power plants and anything that emits smoke, gases and other *stuff* into the air. How's that for a start? Also, since you have opened the door, shouldn't this be a *business* decision? Don't you think the government who can't enforce a tenth of the laws they have on the books now, have better thingsto do with the taxpayers money then telling a business who they can or can not have in their business? If non-smokers want a smoke free restaurant and/or bar, then a non smoker should take the initiative and build one, or operate one instead of forcing someone to abide by something just because it's the whipping post of the 90's 2k era of other people not using the common sense the good lord gave them. Just like a tv, don't like the show, turn the channel, or turn it off. Don't like the restaurant, do like they use to do in the good old days, stay home and cook! What a concept huh?