While I commend and encourage

those who serve liquor to protect others on our streets from the intoxicated

people they have helped create, please recognize that protecting themselves

from being held financially liable is often their main concern.

It is those who protect others

when it is not legally required who I consider showing true responsibility.

The very restaurants listed in the letter are my example. Instead of taking

the steps needed to contain the smoker's overflowing waste from the other

customers, they have chosen instead to continue to ignore the problem.

Why? Because they can. It is not legally required and as I've been told,

until it is, they cannot justify the effort.

Unlike E. coli, salmonella,

or drunk drivers, the damage done by secondhand smoke cannot be traced