tell me how this restricts property rights. i’m just asking.
Bar owners and many other businesses are losing customers like me. I used to love to go shoot pool and have a few beers with friends. I solved this by buying a pool table and staying home. We also don't have drinks after dinner. We eat and get the hell out. Restaurants make a lot of money of drinks. They have lost this too.
Sure.
Generally speaking, a property owner has the right to possess, use, and control his own property as he sees fit. This includes deciding who he wishes to allow on his property, what activities he does on his property, and the kind of environment he maintains on his property. Any law that restricts the range of choices of the property owner in how he uses his property would be a restriction of his property rights.
Obviously, property rights can not be unlimited. There are certain instances where a restriction in property rights may be called for. However, any restrictions should have significant justification and should extend only as far as is necessary to achieve the legitimate end. Well, at least that's how conservatives think.
So prohibiting a business owner from allowing smoking on his property would be a restriction of his property rights. So far I've never heard anyone give an adequate justification for the kind of broad smoking bans that have been popping up across the nation.
Now that I have answered your question, would you mind sharing your own position concerning smoking bans on private property? (IOW, would you vote for or against a ban in your community?)
“tell me how this restricts property rights. i’m just asking.”
It is truly frightening that someone so obtuse carries the government’s guns!