I'm a long-term smoker (since '60), but can't connect smoking and the First Amendment, in any way. Hells bells, I'd just go to a *smoking allowed* place, and avoid the others, or dine at home.
Screw The Nicotine Nazis™.
Businesses are going to fail in large numbers if the omit their smoking patrons. This crap will be overturned within 2 years, IMO.
• Require managers in stronger language to refuse to serve or seat smoking patrons in a non-smoking place.
The above statement is a comment I copied from the news story. It seems to me that this indicates that the government could require managers of resturants and bars to use a certain kind of language to deal with people who smoke. My opinion is that this would be in violation of the first amendment to our constitution. It would infringe on freedom of speech in that the government could tell you what to say and how to say it to a certain segment of our population.
My apologies if I caused confusion.