Reply #108: I go out of my way to find non-smoking restaurants [View All]

[laundry_queen]

Or at least I used to, before there was the smoking ban here in BC.
And when my kids were infants, before the ban, I didn't go out at all.
There is some evidence that chemicals from second hand smoke stay in your clothing. Even if I would have went to a smoking place without my baby, that smoke would still be in my clothes (hair too) when I got home. No way in hell was I snuggling my baby with that shit in my clothes. A tiny baby does not need to stick its face in chemical soup.
(And yes, I feel the same way about all chemicals/pollution not just 2nd hand smoke). So I stayed home. And I don't think that's very fair.

When I was a kid, my parents always used to request non-smoking, and if the non-smoking section was full, they were asked if they would be OK with smoking. My parents always said, NO WAY and then they'd either wait till a table in non-smoking came up, or they'd leave (even if us kids were crying because we wanted to eat at that one place). And they always let management know why too. I'm just so glad we don't have to do that anymore.