--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In California if you have a family run restaurant with no employees > outside the family you can have smoking in the bar area. We have a > local family run restaurant with great Italian food I won't frequent > as the only visit there was for dinner and the bar and dining room > are in the same room. We enjoyed the food but not the smoke. They > could also stand to invest in some acoustical ceiling as the room > was too loud. And then they don't take credit cards. They must > stay in business because of the food quality.
Either that, or the die-hard (in every sense of the term) smokers keep them in business, just so that there is a place where they can go out, and still smoke. I speak with some compassion about smokers, having been one. The social ritual is part of the hook, that feeling of sitting back after a good meal and firing one up. I imagine that is going to be one of the biggest issues here in France. The country is full of people who smoke only one ciga- rette a day, as a pleasure, after dinner. For these folks, the new law is not about protecting them, but about depriving them of a pleasure. That's always a risky thing to do with the French. :-) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
