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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: Re: smoking in public
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Date: Fri, 31-May-85 14:54:38 EDT
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Actually, though I am a non-smoker and fairly militant against smoking, I
do NOT object to smoking in bars. (Restaurants are different, see later.)
But a bar is a traditional place to drink *AND SMOKE*. A non-smoker can
simply not go into a bar. It is "enemy territory", if you like that
analogy. 

Eating establishments that have a bar AND an eating area should be set up 
as follows, depending on their physical layout:

1) Bar in separate room, no eating in bar -- smoking OK in bar, and in
smoking area in eating room(s); ideally, separate smoking and
non-smoking eating rooms, not just regions. If regions are used
(one single eating room), the smoking area is to be determined by
the air-flow pattern (e.g., this is an engineering/scientific decision,
not an esthetic one) -- smoking areas are always to be down-wind.

2) Bar in separate room, also eating tables in bar -- simple and
the clearest arrangement; the bar is the smoking area, the eating
room is non-smoking. (In big restaurants, where there are multiple
eating rooms, one or more other eating rooms can be smoking, of course.)

3) Bar in same room as eating area; all one big room -- this is the
thorniest problem. Suppose the bar area is upwind? The bar area
should be smoking, the area away from  the bar non-smoking. If
air-handling equipment has to be changed to make the bar downwind,
that should be a deductible expense to recompense the owners for
establishing the non-smoking area. (Somehow *more* deductible than an
ordinary business expense -- accellerated depreciation or the like.)

For small neighborhood bars that serve food, there is no way to
make a non-smoking area. If smoke bothers you, you stay out of them.

Note that I write this as a NON-smoker. I am willing to accept that
there will be places I won't go because of smoke. (There are places I 
won't go for many other reasons, this isn't unique or a hardship.)

This principle makes the most sense and keeps people out of each other's way.
Thus it is to be preferred.

Will Martin