Not In My Restaurant

One thing I hate is inhaling other peoples' cigarette smoke against my will. It's about time to ban smoking in public places in this country and stop smoking. You know it makes sense!

There is nothing worse than coming home from a bar or club after an evening out and finding that your clothes smell disgusting because they have been saturated with stench of smoke. I'm not the only one who is fed up of this, and I'm not some born again non-smoker, I just wish that I had a choice whether or not I came home smelling like a dirty ashtray.

Another thing that I really hate is walking down the street behind someone smoking a cigarette. Every time they exhale out comes that cloud of stale smoke and bang, you walk straight into it and aside from crossing over to the other side of the street there is very little you can do about it. It is not a pleasant experience and it is one I could live quite happily without.

I know there are a lot of people in this country that smoke and I'll be willing to bet that they are fed up with people who don't smoke always harping on about their 'bad habit' and telling them what to do. The simple fact is though that smokers are affecting the health of non-smokers as well as their own. People die each year just because they have breathed other people's smoke and that is something we really should be taking seriously. In my opinion an outright ban on smoking in public places is the only way forward; but if you still need some convincing here are some interesting fact I found on second-hand smoke:

$ Workers have been awarded unemployment, disability and worker's compensation benefits for illness due to exposure to secondhand smoke.

$ A smoking employee costs the employer at least $1,000 per year in total excess and indirect health care costs.

$ 35,000 non-smokers