Come to New Zealand, where "you can marry a fag but you can't smoke one"

[Alan]

Stewart Stremler wrote:
> 
> Recent travels out of state to states with smoking/non-smoking sections
> of restuarants resulted in the observation that 'non-smoking section' is
> not at all the same as 'smoke-free section'.   So the division was often 
> just making the smoker's lives difficult for minimal effect.

No one (at least, no one without a vested interest) ever claimed it was. 
The segregation was to stop someone in the booth backing up to yours 
from ruining your meal, not to keep you from getting a whiff of smoke.

Of course, some people need to have it their way, or no way, hence the 
smoking bans in restaurants.

-ajb