Uh, the licensing regulations, meant to be "health" I suspect but I could be wrong, are normally there for things that the customer can't see and has no control over.
These things are, also, normally backed by proven science that has no, or very very little, wiggle in it.
The 2nd hand smoke health risk isn't even close to this. It's not only not in the ballpark, it's not in the neighborhood, city, county, state, or country with things such as food poisoning, roaches in the kitchen, etc.
The ONLY thing that these bans are based on is, "I don't like the smell."
Well, get over it. I don't like the smell of the local Arab restaurant either. We better ban Arab food.
And don't give me the old, 'majority of the people', we don't live in a democracy. At least we're not supposed to.
We live in a representative constitutional republic that is supposed to guarantee and defend the rights of the property owners.
That's strange. I have seen it posted today complaining that the smoking bans are made by those "representatives" inferring that a democracy (where people voted on the bans) would be preferable. Which is is?