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From: desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins)
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Subject: Re: re screaming kids
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Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 20:19:10 EST
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I see that a lot of the people who are annoyed by children in restaurants
also think there should be smoking regulations, which I appreciate.  However:

> 
> Absolutely.  In fact, I advocate much stronger regulations  about  smoking.
> In  California,  for  example,  it's  illegal to smoke in a supermarket.  I
> think this law should be extended to restaurants as well.  Many restaurants
> do  have  separate sections for smokers.  Why not for kids? (Sound proofed,
> of course).

> The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe)

Me too, I think it should be completely illegal to smoke in restaurants.  
The reason?  Yes, there are separate sections for smokers but just as you
probably couldn't convince a restaurant to sound-proof a children's section
even if there were one, there's never anything to stop the smoke from 
drifting across from the smoker's section.

By the way, Jerry, you're right -- I never have had to sit in front of a
screaming child for 8 hours on an airplane.  I think this is going a little
far.  Did you at least say something to the parents?  Although I think that
there shouldn't be a ban on children in airplanes, restaurants, or movie
theaters, I think that the parents should take some responsibility:  it's
likely that the parents know whether or not their child is a screamer; if so,
I think that until they can bring it under control, they have a responsibility
to others to keep the noise level down (i.e. by keeping the children out of
quiet public places or leaving when the kid gets unbearable (unfortunately,
this doesn't work very well on airplanes; maybe they should supply free
junior-size parachutes :-) )).
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	marie desjardins
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