Reply #2: Smoking is banned in bars in California. [View All]

The reason is that so many waiters and waitresses suffered from lung cancer from second-hand smoke. (At least that is what we have been told.) It has worked out very well. You cannot smoke in buildings at all. That, too, has worked out very well.

If you go to some of the old saloons, you will see that patrons used to be allowed to spit into spittoons.

Apparently they are still used by those who chew tobacco.

http://www.mudjug.com/Spitoon.html

We'd be pretty grossed out if someone was spitting in a bar nowadays. If you live in a place in which smoking is not allowed in buildings and then go into a room in which someone has been smoking, it smells really gross. You will appreciate the smoke-free environment.

It makes no sense to complain about air pollution and then work or live in smoke filled rooms. No sense at all.