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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
I don't want to see personal freedom curtailed. Let the free market decide. If you want to run a no smoking establishment then do so. You want to set up smoking and non-smoking areas then do so. Let the public decide with their patronage.
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You need to flip that 180 degrees. As long as allowing smoking is the norm a huge percentage of business owners won't take the step to tell them no. If the law is no smoking they'll be more comfortable telling people to put it out. If an owner wants to proactively say "I'm going to allow smoking" then so be it.
Also, don't bullshit me with this "non-smoking section" crap. It doesn't work. Ever. The rest of us can still smell it. I can't count the number of times I've been on the other side of a 3.5 ft wall from the smoking section, no more than 4 feet from a guy smoking like a damned chimney.