According to a small note in today’s PI, the Washington State Department of Health Tobacco Prevention and Control Program has designated tomorrow as “Smoke-Free Sunday”, which is intended to promote the growth of smoke-free restaurants. The article provides a link to a secondhandsmokesyou.com webpage that provides listings of smoke-free restaurants in Washington by county.

I’m not a militant anti-smoker — I smoke maybe 3 or 4 times a year and really enjoy it when I do — but I am a foodie. I hate it when other people’s smoke ruins the taste of a good meal. Fortunately, it’s not all that hard to find smoke-free restaurants in Seattle. On a recent visit to Machiavelli’s, that wonderful Italian place on the corner of Pine and Melrose, I discovered that they had recently gone smoke-free. Even Six Arms, the McMenamin’s pub just a block away (Pike and Melrose), is now smoke-free until 9:00 most days.

(Discerning meat eaters seeking a restaurant that combines the pleasures of good food and good tobacco can go to El Gaucho for a perfect steak and an after-dinner cigar and brandy in the Cigar Room. Expect to pay big bucks, but it will be an evening to remember.)

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