The city, county nor the state governments should have any right imposing no smoking prohibitions on any owner of a restaurant or bar. It's the owners property and they should set the rules. How about a restaurant make the rule that all chicken or pork must be eaten raw if you are to patronize their establishment.
I predict that in the next few years, somewhere like San Francisco will ban meat products from all restaurants. It's not a matter of if, just when.
the Indian casino lands...which seem to be whereever they want to buy....are exempt from any rulings....so our tax paying restaurants and bars are being punished and some will not survive if they lose 10, 20, 30 % or more of their business....
...first, this state gave the okay for a tribe to buy land near the city to build its own casino and restaurants and entertainment facilities....
then the state when it had the chance to refused to allow simple slot machines in taverns or dance halls,etc....
and then the stupid voters decided we shouldn't have all those evil slots just anywhere so an initiative failed last year that would have allowed some slots at bars, etc away from the casino.....that initiative was defeated by Indian casino money.....
how far can a community go in giving away millions and millions of tax revenue to non-tax paying tribes and not have it affect every facet of government....and that means my property taxes and sales taxes keep going up and up and up.....
Do you feel the same about a state law that forces private employers to allow their employees to carry a firearm onto the employer's property? I only ask because to me the argument is the same in both situations, yet many Freepers who oppose govenment regulation of smoking on private property don't seem to have a problem when the issue concerns firearms.