Since we are only discussing smoking tobacco in private businesses here, what is the point of your comment?
Perhaps that is what you were only discussing, but others were actually debating smoking outdoors and in doorways as well (scroll up and go to previous pages).
Hence the comment. Which I stand by.
Your use and my use of the term "recreational drug use" apparently are 2 different things.
People are smoking tobacco outside, in the open air that is also being shared by exhaust fumes from numerous sources, only because some people that didn't like the smell were able to get the highly financed junk scientists to convince the corruptible and gullible lawmakers to do it.
But heck, I'm a reasonable gal, so I'll go with your idea of "recreational drugs" and suggest that the use of tobacco in an establishment created for the use of alcohol or caffeine shouldn't be a problem, should it? It solves the problem of tobacco use outside, doesn't it?
But I'll take it even a step further, let all the business owners make the decision. WOW, that's such a novel idea, isn't it?