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To be frank, I'm surprised such a debate as this exists. Of course, no, cell phones should not be banned in restaurants. There really is no persuasive enough reason for them to be barred, to my mind at least.

Ok, I think most of us can agree or are able to see why it is important to ban cell phones whilst driving- that is a matter of safety. To be absorbed in conversation and perhaps steering with one-hand clearly endangers other road-users. However, utilizing a cell phone in a restaurant puts no one in danger and thus the extreme measure of outlawing them is completely unnecessary.

In the past few years, many bans have been brought about such as a smoking in public places and cell phone use whilst driving. Cell phones are very often prohibited from being used at the work-place, school, hospitals, public waiting rooms and many other public arenas. We don't want to slide into a society whereby we have our rights taken away, to live under too many restrictions. Give the general public the benefit of the doubt- for the large majority of cell phone users are discreet when speaking on the phone and act accordingly to their situation. Don't make them suffer for the few that perhaps disturb the peace when making calls in public. Even these few do not deserve to have the right to use their cell phone in a restaurant taken away- for they are not harming or endangering any other customers. This would be a nicety law- not an essential one for people's welfare and these nicety laws we can do without. Let us not create a Big Brother society.

As previously stated, most of us are respectful to other diners when making use of our phones in a restaurant. The user will often lower their voice rendering it almost impossible to over-hear their conversation from a table away, especially in a bustling environment.

Cell phones are equipped with vibratory alerts or volume controls so that if it rings other restaurant patrons will not hear a loud ring tone. Many also sit their phones besides them or at least in easy reach whilst eating and can thus retrieve the handset quickly should it go off. After all, it is rare to find a restaurant patron who wishes to be embarrassed with a shrilling call alert tone that continues to sing for a minute or so, causing all the other diners to cast disapproving glances their way. No, the general public tends to be discreet and sensitive to the desires of other fellow customers.

Anyway, it is often times

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