This is not a state-wide smoking ban. It is a state-wide smoking ban for public indoor places such as resturants, bars and a few other venues.
It is not even that. It is a statewide ban for indoor PRIVATE property. Indoor public places are government controlled buildings, not privately owned buildings.
It is a state-wide smoking ban forpublicprivately owned indoor places such as resturants, bars and a few other venues.
A little less ambiguous there, if the state wants to regulate it, the state should make some "public" restaurants to regulate on the line of "public" restrooms, town squares, parks etc...
Of course, give the states track record of quality in pretty much any endeavour, I'm willing to bet vast sums of money that a state restaurant that prohibits smoking will echo with the sounds of crickets when competing with a private restaurant that allows it and to top off the irony, the morons wanting to ban the smoking will still be in the private restaurants...