Let the consumer DECIDE!”
I agree. We have a great locally owned place on the Texas Gulf Coast that allows smoking throughout the restaurant. Food is awesome. There is another restaurant right across the street that is totally non smoking. Both are jammed all the time. We have run across some small towns in Colorado that do not allow smoking anywhere inside or outside within the city limits. Many of their smaller family owned restaurants are now closed. Their towns, their rules, we just don’t go there any more.
That’s not the towns. As a state, Colorado banned tobacco from public places, including bars and restaurants in 2006.