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none of your examples are applicable....I am not advocating the government stop anyone from doing harmful things to themselves....I assert that government does have a role in stopping you from doing harmful things to me...your beer example ---- you can drink all you want but the government has the right to say you can only drink so much before you drive because you are a danger to others...

They are all applicable, if I'm smoking in a designated smoking area I am not effecting you at all. Just like all the rest of what I listed, none effect you & you don't have the right to tell me what to do.
Now if I sit beside you in a non-smoking area & start blowing smoke in your face, I'm effecting you. If I drink abusively & get impaired & sit behind a wheel, then I can hurt you.
You people want take all rights away from smokers to give ya'll what you want & that my friend is not fair.

I assert that government does have a role in stopping you from doing harmful things to me...your beer example ---- you can drink all you want but the government has the right to say you can only drink so much before you drive because you are a danger to others...

You are right - the government does have the right to determine how much you can drink and then drive. But your reasons are wrong.

The government has the right to set limits on alcohol and driving because driving on public roads is a privelege, not a right. You must earn the privelege to drive. And to retain the privelege you must abide by certain rules.

However, if I own a couple thousand acres and choose to get rip roaring drunk and drive on that land - the government has no say in the matter. It's my private property. If in doing so I injure someone - there are laws involving assault to deal with that. There are also laws dealing with trespass. If I didn't invite you on my land and you get hurt you have no one to blame but yourself for being somewhere you shouldn't be.

By entering a restaurant you are entering into a contract with the proprietor of your own free will.