Raymond Mark Spencer comments

Japan remains a smokers paradise. You can smoke indoors but it is banned on the streets (where people still smoke as they would never be fined). Only 20% of people smoke in Japan so 80% of people need to inhale the cancer causing secondhand smoke. It seems strange that all employees would need to agree that smoking is allowed in establishments smaller than 30 meters square. These people usually don't have a choice. I say ban smoking in all restaurants and allow people to smoke outside in designated areas. If people have more choices of not smoking restaurants that means they don't need to go to smoking restaurants and my guess is at the end of the day many smoking restaurants will go out of business.