Are smoky bars or restaurants potentially dangerous to my health?
In the United States, there's been an increasing trend to have smoke free public places in restaurants and in work places. When you take your family, especially your children, into a public facility where cigarette smoking occurs over here is air exchange in this building, it is just a matter of concentration about how much you're getting. There is not a protection just because a few feet or yards away there is a divider that says a non-smoking side. Even filters in the buildings that are supposed to protect and decrease those toxins have been shown to be totally ineffective. So I would encourage you to consider those toxic places, especially do not take your children there and you need to be aware that you are accepting the risk of second hand smoke when you go into a facility that allows smokers and non-smokers to be in the same air breathing space, the risk is not low and it is not zero.