Businesses should be able to get Smoking Licenses, just like the can apply for and get liquor licenses. That way, the default for businesses will be non-smoking, but any that choses can become a smoking establishment.Why license it? At best all that does is provide money and jobs to bureaucrats. At worst it lets them limit and control it above and beyond what the owners would do.
Simply requiring a "smoking permitted in this establishment" sign at each entrance accomplishes the same thing without governmental interference.
-Eric
Who's going to require it? What will you do if people don't?
Give me a break, that is regulation, just an ineffective one.
Unfortunately the neeco-nasties don't see the logic in this.