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- If 20% of your customers really need a cigarette, they can always step outside to smoke. The other 80% cannot step outside to breathe.
- A brawler's right to swing a punch ends precisely where your nose begins. Every right carries a responsibility. And that responsibility includes sparing another's health from the off-gassing effects of an addiction only another addict would call a "habit," a "custom," a "tradition," an "adult choice," or some other euphemism.
- Customers pay good money to enjoy themselves and taste your food — not to rent a place to smoke, and certainly not to have their senses of smell and taste trashed by numbing tobacco toxins.
- If a snuffer or sniffer rolled into your restaurant or bar and poured a can of gasoline or glue on the floor because he liked the smell, no one would consider it his "choice" or "right" or see the need to "accommodate" him. You'd eighty-six him.
- Cigarettes are drug delivery devices. Smokers are addicted to nicotine and its dopamine effect in the brain to a degree rivaled only by crack cocaine and injected heroin. Who would defend a heroin addict's "right" to leave used needles around or a crack addict's "right" to ignite ether? Guess.
- Hospitality employees in a smoking restaurant or bar have no choice but to breathe secondhand smoke every shift they work. Even if they're active smokers, their exposure to secondhand smoke increases their health risks right along with a non-smoking patron's. Fair? Not.
- Secondhand smoke causes immediate health effects — some as large as actively smoking a pack a day. Smoking environments repel anyone except addicted employees or applicants with no other employment options. Is that your human resources model?
- Hazardous working conditions are against the law in every other line of work, from carpentry to coal mining. Why should restaurants, bars or casinos be the sole exception?
- When Big Tobacco talks about "choice," it's only trying to take choice away — from you, your customers, and your employees — and make you pay for its profits.
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