I am about the most conservative person around and I am for pro-health, anti-smoking laws. Same as I am for other laws which prevent the rights of one person from infringing upon another.
But of course that's just plain common sense.
Before they passed the no-smoking on airline laws, Northwest voluntarily instituted a no smoking policy. I enjoyed patronizing them. The market will provide non-smoking eateries without resort to Government force. I just don't see that it's a diner's right to make a business owner provide him something he wants.
People don't have the right not to be offended. I don't know where in the constitution you find that, but I believe that you believe you are more conservative than you think.
My health is my own concern, unless I have something dangerous and communicable, like Ebola.
It's up to adults to navigate the hazards they encounter in the pursuit of their happiness - and that includes the 'infringements' on other's pursuits as well.
You want the government to do that for you. You'd walk into a cigar lounge and tell everyone sitting there quietly enjoying their premium puros to extinguish their cigars, because his royal highness - who is very conservative and doesn't smoke - is offended by cigar smoke.
You have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Everytime you go crying to your congressmen I lose a little bit more liberty, and it impedes the normal pursuit of happiness.
In my world, you just pick a different restaurant to eat in.
You're a liberal, you just haven't woke up to it yet.