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The effect on "business" in general is irrelevant. The simple fact is that no one was putting a gun to your head and making you go to a place which allowed smoking.

You gonna make me start eating healthy too, mom?

The simple fact is that no one was putting a gun to your head and making you go to a place which allowed smoking.

I consider the lack of smoke-free establishments to be one of the few failings of the free enterprise system. Before the no-smoking laws there were no non-smoking bars or restaurants. And the system had failed me because it did not give me the choice I wanted.

Despite the fact that I think there is no such thing as "smoker's rights", I do think it would be possible to reach a compromise. Charge bars & restaurants for a smoking license. It would have to be a high enough charge to prevent them all from converting back, but at some price they would be about 50-50.

If they want to recoup the cost they could charge smokers something like $1.00 per cig to smoke in the place...