Originally Posted by
jimsumner
I still remember going to restaurants with smoking and non-smoking sections, asking to be seated in the non-smoking section and being seated five feet away from a table with a smoker(s).
This may not be everybody's experience but in good parts of North Carolina, the presumption was that smoking was a right and the non-smoking section was an unwelcome government mandate.
And for the record, we walked out of a few of these. And I'm talking about the 1990s, when the health risks of second-hand smoke had been conclusively demonstrated.