Waitress Chrissy Pluth writes that she is OK with waiting on tables in smoking sections because smokers are more pleasant, spend more and tip better (“OK with smoke,” Voice of the people, Dec. 3). She feels her job is healthier than sitting on her behind in an office all day.
The nice thing about sedentary office jobs is that a little exercise offsets the negative. That can’t be said of secondhand smoke.
As a landlady I am always distressed by the work that has to be done to clean up after a smoking tenant moves out.
I’ve seen walls so tar-coated after a one-year tenancy that paint wouldn’t stick to them.
I’ve often thought of leasing one of my smoker-vacated units to the Lung Association; it could take school groups through to see what secondhand smoke does to walls and windows and, it is hoped, relate that to their own bodies.
It just might save a few kids from lighting up.
