How much more dangerous is a second hand smoke than stress?

You know that stress is harmful to your health, right? With this in mind I'd like to thank all the anti-smoking zealots for damaging both my physical and mental health in their efforts to save my lungs from a little second hand smoke.

I've worked as a waiter for about 9 years. During those years I always liked working the smoking section on a busy night. Why? Because a busy night is stressful enough when you work in food service. I never understood why the hell it is that when people go out to eat, presumably for a nice relaxing meal, they turn into impatient pricks who all show up to eat at around the same time but fail to realize they're not the only table I have to serve and that the kitchen is having to cook for. Not only do I have to endure the stress of taking orders, getting the food out as soon as it gets done and all the while having to keep that ass hole's tea filled because they drink way to fast but expect the cup to never run dry, I also have to take time to stop and take a few minutes to nicely explain that they're not, as they should be able to look around and see, the only people in the place.

Unlike the non-smoking section, where you're not going to be able to avoid dealing with a bunch of these pricks, smokers are almost always a way less stressful group to deal with. In the smoking section you hardly ever encounter those impatient pricks that make an already stressful time 100X worse. Sure I have a couple of hours, and the levels of anything you deal with as a server are only high from about 4-7, where I breathe in their smoke. But, contrary to what you may believe, most of the time of a server isn't spent at their table. So during those 3 hours I'm only spending a few minutes here and a few minutes there. To tell you the truth, the most disgusting part of working in the food industry isn't the smoking section. Its the nasty grease that permeates the air, even when there isn't a single smoker in the place. At the end of every shift my skin is all greasy and no doubt my lungs also. Not to mention that, unlike the smell of tobacco smoke, you can NEVER get that damn greasy food smell out of your work clothes.

As for the whole worker's health crap, which is what the crusaders masquerade as the purpose of smoking bans, I wish they would visit with the servers they're trying to protect so that they can ask us what we think about the ban. Considering that most people who work in food service are smokers anyway, I'm sure they'd tell you to go fuck yourself.

I wonder if we could get a food industry worker class action law suit going against the anti-smoking zealot groups for damages, physical and mental, that have resulted from them pushing to take away my choice between working in the low stress smoking section or the high stress non-smoking section. Because, in an effort to protect me from damage that may or may not happen 20yrs from now, they're forcing me to deal with higher levels of stress that are doing me harm right now.