the real problem - and how things have got so far out of line, is that smokers will carp about being picked on, then go right ahead and reelect those doing the picking.
it is hard to think of an election that the margin couldn't have shifted has smokers voted en masse for their own interest.
This Washington ban was voted on.....and look what happened.........
The problem with democracy is that reason falls 20% for each 10% of loss of representation; back when roughly 50% of adults were active smokers there was no movement to ban smoking other than where the ignition of flammable substances was a concern, now only about 20% of adults are smokers which places them about 100 feet below the radar screen of influence.
A super-majority of non-smokers now has the floor and no reason to relinquish it.