brighid

I would agree and the complaint should be lodged with the restaurant management, and not the individual smoker. Some people are just rude, plain and simple.

Brighid

Viti

I know that I have been rudely spoken to in Casinos when I smoke. One lady was making a huge scene coughing and holding a handkercheif to her face and telling me to put out my cigarette...so I asked her why she didn't move to the non smoking BlackJack tables, or even better to the (now bankrupt and closed) non-smoking Casino next door. She said the non-smoking tables weren't any "good" (meaning unlucky)...I certainly did not put out my cigarette...she had options she chose the smoking section.

brighid

She certainly had a choice and she made it. She could go to the non-smoking section but chose not too and therefore should have considered she might be sitting next to a smoker.

Brighid

Salmon of Doubt

I object only to places where I don't have a choice. Here there are no non-smoking pubs, and non-smoking areas in restaurants are not segregated at all from smoking sections. If I want to go out almost anywhere except the cinema, I will end up breathing in a great deal of smoke, which exacerbates my asthma, and I come back with my clothes and hair stinking of smoke, which I find disgusting. I welcome any stigma attached to smoking if it can get me a place to go out when I can avoid this. I respect people's rights to smoke if they want to, but I do think our right not to have to breathe it in when we go out should be respected too.

JohnR

When I go the Las Vegas I feel bad because I don't smoke. It is like walking back into the seventies. I think some people go there to smoke freely as much to gamble. But I expect that when I visit there. I only wish some smokers had more consideration for others. Maybe the non-smoking backlash wouldn't be so bad.
I have been a non-smoker for 25 years. Quit when I was 29.