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The anti-smoking rules require restaurants, bars, pool halls, bingo halls and bowling alleys to be designated as either entirely smoking or completely smoke-free, or allow smoking only in designated rooms that are enclosed and properly ventilated so that secondhand smoke is not circulated "in any manner" to a nonsmoking area.

Sorry, this is what I've been saying needs to happen. Read the bolded part.
Let the free market prevail. It shouldn't take a law, but if this is the way it goes then so be it.
Anyone in Oklahoma want to start a 'smokin' bar?

"These rules are fair. Secondhand smoke shouldn't be wafting over our children," Keating said at a state Capitol news conference.

I still don't like this. "It's for the children."

Oklahoma has one of the highest per-capita smoking rates in the nation. I suspect that the majority of the stand-alone bars will decide to stay smoking establishments. This will cause mass hysteria among the nannies. They will stamp their feet and gnash their teeth while never stepping into one of these businesses themselves.

While it is better than an outright ban, it is just the first step down a slippery slope that leads to a complete ban on smoking in any venue that caters to the public at large. The incremental steps that this jihad has taken are clear to any observer.

I will only frequent an establishment that respects my rights to engage in a lawful activity. Once OSHA completes their campaign to stamp out smoking in public, which I believe will be sooner rather than later, I will do all of my smoking and drinking at home. I bet that a number of others will do the same. Watch as these businesses flounder from the loss of their core patrons.

"It's for the children" just doesn't float when we're talking about a business where it is unlawful for minors to be in the establishment to begin with (i.e. bars, pool halls that serve alcoholic beverages). Every time I hear that term, it just makes me want to scream. Keating can go pound sand. I regret that I voted for this RINO, twice.

On one hand, I'm somewhat encouraged. My sheeple co-workers, who could not be bothered with the outright corruption exhibited by the past administration, are now up in arms at the loss of one of their freedoms. It was the perfect opportunity for me to impress on them that they need to register to vote and let their feelings be known at the ballot box. The only problem is that it is getting harder and harder to find a politician who will not knuckle under to the hype and propaganda that is currently being displayed by the agents of the left.