Letter: Food-free pubs made wrong choice

Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007 | 1:13 a.m.

This is in reply to Mark Cinotto's Aug. 16 letter, in which he complained that his favorite pub had to let employees go because of Nevada's anti-smoking laws.

Mr. Cinotto's favorite pub got it backwards when they closed their kitchen to comply with the Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act. The pub's owners chose to allow smoking rather than keep their kitchen open and make patrons go outside to light up.

Only the most dense and inconsiderate of smokers need a law to tell them what most smokers know. Their habit affects everyone around them and others just don't want to be around it. The more tobacco smoke is studied the more deadly it appears. No level of indoor tobacco smoke seems safe. None.

So get with the program, Mr. Cinotto. Outside of your home or car, look around before you light up. Maybe if you and other smokers had been more considerate, we wouldn't have needed a law.

Dale Quale, Las Vegas

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