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noise and smoking
The anti-smoking campaign is well established, and its adherents
know what laws and regulations to support.  However,
smoke doesn't bother me personally nearly as much as noise.
It bothers my wife even more than it bothers me.  We often
have to give up on a restaurant if loud music is playing,
and she won't go into the Stanford Coffee House.  She can't
even stand the tapes that are always playing there.  I go in
when alone, because the tapes only bother me occasionally,
but am quickly driven out if a band is playing.  

The Stanford Coffee House is the only place on campus where
Espresso is available.  So far as I know I have no legal
rights according to present law, but I can imagine an
anti-noise crusade that would result in a law requiring
them to maintain a noise free area.  We could require that
no band play in the main public area of a restaurant but rather
in a sound-proof room with the restaurant providing ear phones
for people who wanted to listen.

Will the anti-smokers tell me what my rights are in this matter?

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noise and smoking
I see I didn't make myself perfectly clear again.  I think no-smoking
sections in most restaurants and airplanes are a good idea.  However, I
think the anti-smoker crusaders are going to far and should be somewhat
accomodating to others tastes and vices just as those of us annoyed by
noise have to be.  Provided there are a reasonable number of restaurants
available with adequate separation of non-smokers, that should suffice.
I cannot help feeling that there is a certain element of reformist zeal
in MRC in addition to his desire to protect his wife.

My wife and I have also discussed the possibility of having sections
in restaurants in which discussion of microcomputers and pc software
is forbidden.

Let me elaborate my question about noise.  What laws about quiet
in restaurants should there be?  The question is specifically addressed
to MRC and RPG.  Are we entitled to as much protection as those
annoyed by smoking or somewhat less and why?  I'd settle for
considerably less protection than the smoke haters have.