[Looking for Diogenes]

You have totally ignored the point I made.

I'm sorry, I thought I had addressed it. Can you restate it please?

[Gabz]

In a nutshell - the point I was making is that many establisments have already gone non-smoking. By government mandate of ALL establishments being non-smoking - those that did that on their own have now had their market stripped away from them.

These owners had the right to cater to non-smokers, just as others had the right to cater to smokers - government mandated smoking bans remove all of those rights.