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Businesses should be able to get Smoking Licenses, just like the can apply for and get liquor licenses. That way, the default for businesses will be non-smoking, but any that choses can become a smoking establishment

I strongly disagree. We should not need to get a license from the government to do what we please on our private property. Private Property rights have been so eroded in this country that they practically do not exist any more.

And if a license scheme is introduced we all know how it will end up. The price to get a license and the conditions to qualify for said license will start out low enough, but will quickly be jacked up to astronomical proportions as it will be seen as nothing more than another revenue stream for the government and these businesses will be considered easy pickins, just as smokers are with the tax increases on tobacco constantly happening.

We all know how government operates. But regarding the smoking ban in NY we need to go back a year. It was determined and businesses were advised that a smoking ban was NOT going to be put in place. But instead they were going to be required to install ceratin 'smoke eaters' in their bars. So businesses invested many thousands of dollars in these smoke eaters to be in compliance when the regulation they were told would happen became reality.

Didn't happen. Government changed its mind and went with a total smoking ban.

I strongly disagree. We should not need to get a license from the government to do what we please on our private property. Private Property rights have been so eroded in this country that they practically do not exist any more.

Good for you, I hope you enjoy no rights because you want no compromise. I would vote to keep the bans over having none. You lose people like me with your all or nothing positions.

I live in LA, we went through all that years ago. The joke of 'smoking' and 'non-smoking' sections in the same restaurant, with no actual barriers. Now we have an all out ban. I am perfectly happy with things as they are. But I am willing to have businesses have the right to allow smoking. Guess you prefer nothing to a license. You will never get what you are seeking - I would take the resonable path to get smoking back into the restaurants and bars that choose.