should smoking be banned in restaurants?

That's a good point about perfume. But that would be a lot harder to regulate than smoking is. I worked at a restaurant in Fl before they banned smoking in restaurants and there were parts of the non smoking section that was just too close to the smoking section and no one really wanted to sit there. Except people who smoke but were with nonsmokers or just wanted to get sat sooner rather than later. Airports sometimes do that.. have a room for smokers and that's fine because the whole room is incased. I just try not to go anywhere near them. In a restaurant though that's harder to do because that's an extra cost of installing the glass, and proper ventilation; I would rather see the restaurant I work at buy a more efficient computer system so things run smoother and faster than have them invest in that. as a server I would not want to work in a smoking room because the smoke rooms that I've seen at the airport all seem have poor ventilation because you can see the smoke cloud in it.

You also have to think about the rights of the employees. Is it right for the non-smoking waitress to have to serve the smoking section of a restaurant. I read about a study that figured out how much second-hand smoke on average someone inhales when they are working around it. It is bad! Smokers have a right to smoke, but that server has the right to live a long life. Everyone has a right...so which right is more right???

its not discrimating against the smokers, its trying to protect everyone else from second hand smoke