Let's revise that for accuracy. Some restaurants want to go smoke free. But there's this pesky little problem - customers preferences and the presence of competitors that allow smoking. So banning smoking in their own restaurants just isn't good enough. Their competitors have the unfair advantage of catering to the wishes of the marketplace!
So, like all good little socialists, the no-smoking restaurants beg their masters to use their heavy hand "to level the playing field".
This is an economic movement
Yeah, it's an economic movement allright. It's an attack on free market capitalism by socialists.
It is the American way. Your in denail that this trend can be reversed. Its a done deal. The major chains want the laws changed and the end result will be increased profits for everyone in the business because maintaining the staffing and the equipemt for providing smoking and nonsmoking sections will be eliminated and with a state wide ban the income will remain the same.
Once the economics works against you your screwed.
There can be a good argument made that it is fascism.