>> A restaurant should have the right to allow smokers or not as the owner sees fit.
Absolutely agree! If a customer doesn’t prefer to ruin his meal by being forced to breathe smoke while eating it, said customer doesn’t need to patronize the place!
And I wouldn’t.
Same concept applies to “no guns” restaurants.
I should add that I don’t smoke.
The absolute BEST sign I ever have seen (beside the door to a bar in rural Kern County, CA AFTER smoking was outlawed in CA):
“WE SMOKE!
IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT,
DON’T COME IN!”
My sentiments exactly!
Business owners should decide, not REMF bureaucrats!