With all the legislation and lobbying we have here in the United States to get cigarette smokers out of all public areas, you'd never think that banning cigarettes from a restaurant would actually be a bad thing.
That's because we're not talking about the United States, where entire states like California have banned smoking not just from restaurants but in public areas.
We're dining out in China.
In Beijing, customers deserted the city's first smoke-free restaurant chain, Meizhou Dongpo, leaving it with the possibility of going out of business. Apparently, the Chinese are the world's most smoking-est people. This is great news for cigarette companies, but a problem for Chinese authorities that want to "clean up" China's reputation in international eyes.
I don't know about anyone else, but even when I was a smoker a long time ago, I never appreciated second-hand smoke in a restaurant where I was dining.
2-03-2008 @8:02PM TheRealist said... It is now Internationally recognised that Second Hand Smoke does not kill and pubs and clubs should be given the choice of being either smoking or non-smoking establishments. for further information visit:- freedom2choose.info
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2-03-2008 @8:22PM TheRealist said... Re my last post the site is :-
http://www.freedom2choose.info
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1-19-2008 @6:31PM Rob Brooks-Bilson said... When I was in Shanghai last year, what I found particularly challenging (for a non-smoker) was that a lot of Chinese eat in small private rooms in restaurants. Each occasion I had an opportunity to dine in a private room, it was a smoke filled affair, to say the least. After a week there, I got used to it, but I definitely didn't like it!
One of the guys I was having dinner with one night remarked that the Chinese government encouraged smoking because of the relatively high taxes collected on cigarettes. I'm sure he was half-joking, but he said it was his duty to smoke to support the country!
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1-22-2008 @11:17PM Ron Green said... We've become a nation os pussies.
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1-21-2008 @2:44AM mark harris said... In the UK the smoking ban has been responsible for over 1000 pub closures-that is expected to rise to 5,000 over the next two years.Indoor sealed/ventilated rooms for smokers would have solved this problem.
http://www.innthecold.com
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1-21-2008 @5:11AM Berkana said... My goodness, with the air quality in China so bad that the sky is usually grey, who needs the added burden on the lungs from cigarette smoke?
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