[Steely Glint]

"No, a property owner asserting his or her right to serve the clientele he wants is certainly not childish."

"True, maybe...but unconstitutional nonetheless. It isn't your property, and it isn't the government's property."

There is this wonderful thing in this country called the Rule of Law. You should look into it some time.

[Steely Glint]

FYI, a young smoker has about a 25% shorter future lifespan than a comparable non-smoker does.

[FLAMING DEATH]

There's also this thing called the Declaration of Independence which outlines how the "rule of law" can be used as an excuse for all sorts of government abuses.

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

This is kinda the central principle around which all our laws are founded. No doubt, the things that you advocate can be defended as being within the "rule of law". I never advocated breaking that law, either, if you read my posts. I simply said that it should not BE a law to begin with, because it is not something that the government has any business meddling with.

It would be different if the effects of smoking weren't widely known and if the restaurant owner tried to prevent customers from knowing what kind of environment they were entering. But, neither of these are the case.