&gt; Smoking is banned in restaurants because it&#x27;s harmful to the waitstaff.<p>I wasn&#x27;t aware that waiters are enslaved. Of course, if they have a free choice to choose to work in a restaurant which allows smoking or not … that&#x27;s their free choice.<p>And the pseudoscience behind so-called &#x27;secondhand smoke&#x27; is thoroughly discredited. Anti-smoking bigotry is just that: prejudiced, emotional, unthinking <i>bigotry</i>. But it&#x27;s socially acceptable bigotry. Folks gotta have their two minutes&#x27; hate!