I wouldn't Fart in your Face!!!

So don't blow your nasty, stinky, toxic second-hand smoke in mine!!! Let's get a grip here folks, how many studies have to be done to demonstrate just how terrible smoking is to your health.

We decide to grab a quick dinner at Rico's in Alden Bridge last night. As usual, the wait is crazy and the restaurant is overflowing with people waiting for tables. Due to the lack of space you are forced to huddle like a bunch of fools at the entrance or you can stand outside and freeze or sweat to death or you can wait in the bar. I would normally choose the latter and relax with a beverage while I wait for my table. However, if this choice is made you are forced to sit among the gray cloud that hovers over everyone like a blanket of filth coating your lungs with tar and other carcinogens. Lovely.

Ladies and gents, this is Montgomery County, Texas. Compare that to ummmmm, let's say an ENTIRE country better known as France. Personally, I'm not a fan of the French but you have to hand it to them, they have their act together. In a country where the majority of the population smokes they have (drum roll please) BANNED smoking in all restaurants (gasp)!!! So have other cities and states in the US. Phoenix, AZ comes to mind. I'm not a big fan but California's got it going on as well. You can go to a club in Newport Beach dance your butt off, enjoy a cocktail and have a great time smoke free! Wow, what a concept! When you get home your hair doesn't smell, your clothes don't smell and you aren't coughing like you have a bad case of bronchitis.

Why can't we do this in our little neck of the woods? Let's see, the restaurants/bars might argue "We'll lose money, we'll lose customers". Yes, maybe a few but the plus side is that you will gain all of the other customers who avoid your establishments like the plague because they quite frankly smell like the bottom of an ashtray.

We will no longer dine at Perry's due to the smoke that wafts it's way out of the bar and winds it's wretched self around you like a snake. We used to have to send our wine glasses back because they were hung in the bar and they wreaked of smoke. Wine and cigarettes, not a popular pairing as far as I know!

Secondly, Kirby's is just as bad (not to mention the fact that their food tastes like a Sysco dumping ground). We went once and will never return. I would love to go and listen to the music but I refuse to sit there while inebriated, injected, overfilled, over-plumped cougars on the prowl french inhale and blow theirs remain in my face. Nastay!

Those are just a couple of the worst places in The Woodlands for smoke. Amerigo's is a loser in that department as is Carraba's, and Cru. Let's just stop there - Cru a Wine bar!!! If you are truly going to enjoy a glass of wine it should be swirled, sniffed and savored. Not drank and drowned out by the smell of nicotine!!! C'mon guys!

At least Martinis and More got it right and got rid of the smoking. They had to redo the entire interior of the establishment when the change was made due to the lingering odors. I believe their business is doing just fine.

At least a few establishments in the area have it right:
La Mesa Mexican Bistro
PF Chang's
Jasper's
Tommy Bahama

Who do we contact to do something about this problem? Please share information and let's do something about it!

I realize for most smokers it is an addiction that they would love to leave behind them. Do I have friends who smoke? You bet but they have the courtesy not to bring it around me. As I said, I wouldn't fart in your face so please be kind enough not to smoke in mine!