[Right Wing Professor]

The other point is that there must not be enough business for a nonsmoking bar.

Assuming perfect efficency and rationality of consumer and business choice, neither of which is likely to be true.

Until very recently, there were three national news organizations and one cable news organization. All were liberal. There are now maybe four cable news organizations, and only one is conservative. Yet conservatives make up around 40% of the population, more than liberals, and likely have more disposable income. WHy hasn't the market adjusted? Why do we still have no conservative broadcast news operations?

[Just another Joe]

Yes, bring apples and oranges into the picture and let's compare them.

Face it prof, if there was a market for nonsmoking bars, there would be nonsmoking bars.

There are PLENTY of nonsmoking restaurants in the area. Where are all the nonsmoking bars.

If there was a market for nonsmoking bars the anti-smokers wouldn't have to use the govt and junk science to force a private property owner to make his bar nonsmoking against his will.

[CSM]

I found this on another thread. It addresses the private property vs. public argument.

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http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=407&invol=551

According to the SCOTUS in LLOYD CORP. v. TANNER, 407 U.S. 551 (1972) involving rights associated with property ownership: “Held: There has been no dedication of petitioner's privately owned and operated shopping center to public use so as to entitle respondents to exercise First Amendment rights therein that are unrelated to the center's operations; and petitioner's property did not lose its private character and its right to protection under the Fourteenth Amendment merely because the public is generally invited to use it for the purpose of doing business with petitioner's tenants.”