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Re: Dining Group WWW Site - Feeback To Inquiries

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From: Mark
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 00:00
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In article <fifAwAeR1TEO083yn@netcom.com>, mshaw@netcom.com (Mark Shaw) wrote:

> In article <mes-1007952027180001@sam-ppp-j0.neosoft.com>,
> mes@neosoft.com (Mark) wrote:

> > No. We had this system with the result that almost all restaurants allowed
> > smoking under the theory that they couldn't afford to turn away any
> > customers. No matter what you say, I had to breathe smoke almost every
> > time I chose to go to dinner.
> 
> About the time I started working in the restaurant industry, restaurants began
> instituting no-smoking sections for the comfort of their nonsmoking patrons.
> They did this because of market forces -- no government forced them to do so.
> Some of them didn't quite do it right, whether it was due to lack of venti-
> lation or whatever, but others did.  About the time they all started figuring
> it out Big Brother stepped in.
> 
> Your recollection is faulty.

My recollection is not faulty. Almost all restaurants allow smoking right
now. And there is a ridiculous fallacy among smokers that because they are
smoking two or three tables away from me that my dinner is not adversely
affected.

Mar
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From: mes@neosoft.com (Mark)
Subject: Re: Dining Group WWW Site - Feeback To Inquiries
Date: 1995/07/11
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