Agreed, but it should be up to the establishment if they wish to bar smoking from their establishments. My employer has a smoke free policy which means no one is permitted to smoke in the building at any time. Of course we do not have to deal with patrons that come in wanting to smoke. I for one would not work in such an environment neither would I subject myself to the dangers of mining for coal or a few other occupations that I would find to be hazardous to my well being. Now I am not telling you to quit your job but at the same time cigarettes are legal and therefor the possession and use of such cancer sticks is legal. It should not require government to step in to regulate its use. Besi...

Agreed, but it should be up to the establishment if they wish to bar smoking from their establishments. My employer has a smoke free policy which means no one is permitted to smoke in the building at any time. Of course we do not have to deal with patrons that come in wanting to smoke. I for one would not work in such an environment neither would I subject myself to the dangers of mining for coal or a few other occupations that I would find to be hazardous to my well being. Now I am not telling you to quit your job but at the same time cigarettes are legal and therefor the possession and use of such cancer sticks is legal. It should not require government to step in to regulate its use. Besides as I read the whole article I was not impressed with the governments attempts to ban it in some places only to allow it in others which in the end will only cause chaos and lawsuits. IMHO

I for one would not work in such an environment neither would I subject myself to the dangers of mining for coal or a few other occupations that I would find to be hazardous to my well being.

Some people have very little choice... Like say my sister in law (well, sister in common-law), she's a mother of two, with a very low income, she takes whatever jobs she can get. That often means working at a diner, restaurant, etc. Who protects her rights if it is up to the restaurateur?

We've had both successes and failures here in Nova Scotia.. smoking is banned in most public places, such as restaurants, etc, except if there is a separately ventilated room that takes up less then ...

I for one would not work in such an environment neither would I subject myself to the dangers of mining for coal or a few other occupations that I would find to be hazardous to my well being.

Some people have very little choice... Like say my sister in law (well, sister in common-law), she's a mother of two, with a very low income, she takes whatever jobs she can get. That often means working at a diner, restaurant, etc. Who protects her rights if it is up to the restaurateur?

We've had both successes and failures here in Nova Scotia.. smoking is banned in most public places, such as restaurants, etc, except if there is a separately ventilated room that takes up less then something like 30% of the establishment's space. The owners thought this law would bankrupt them, that the patrons would not visit.. but you know what.. many have found that instead more people frequent them (especially pubs...).

The one failure I would say is the law prohibiting smoking withing 16 feet of a door, ventilation intake, etc for any publicly accessible building. The law is there, but never enforced. A buddy of mine complained to his building manager about people smoking at the back entrance (where most employees enter and leave, publicly accessible) and was told to F___-Off. hen he complained to the police, they said they would look into it, but nothing would likly become of it.

Cat it sounds like this folks in Pittsburgh copied the law you have over there across the pond. They too are trying to inforce a 15 foot entrance way ban and such like and again I say this is totally looney tunes. I for one never frequent a place where I have to be subjected to cigerette smoke while I attempt to eat. I do not care if it is the classiest place in town I will not eat there. Most place around here are smoke free and they all seem to be doing a fine business. I think smokers should exercise some common courtesy and not light up where others who are not smoking might be offended but lets face it IT IT THEIR RIGHT so they say. I would love to be able to go up to one of these dine...

Cat it sounds like this folks in Pittsburgh copied the law you have over there across the pond. They too are trying to inforce a 15 foot entrance way ban and such like and again I say this is totally looney tunes. I for one never frequent a place where I have to be subjected to cigerette smoke while I attempt to eat. I do not care if it is the classiest place in town I will not eat there. Most place around here are smoke free and they all seem to be doing a fine business. I think smokers should exercise some common courtesy and not light up where others who are not smoking might be offended but lets face it IT IT THEIR RIGHT so they say. I would love to be able to go up to one of these diners who are smoking up a storm and vomit in their coffee to prove a point but I would be arrested. In an ideal world perhaps there would be no need for such legislation but lets face it there are so many laws already on the books that are not being inforced this just looks like another opportunity for lawyers to make money off the backs of some poor smuck who end up being sued for smoking or complaining about someone smoking.

Moses gave Isreal 10 laws and if we just kept those 10 the world would be a better place but alas they didn't we don't and thus we have all these lawyers and law makers attempting to legislate common decency.