[cinFLA]

You have plenty of non-smoking places to go. Why is it so abhorrent to you that we might have a few places to go?

I still remember when there was no place to go without smokers. One of the reasons there is a total ban movement is because the owners played only lip service to setting up non-smoking areas.

[Ken Garrett]

Is it your position that government should dictate how a private business has to be run? What ever happened to personal responsibility and choice? If I elect to allow smoking in my restaurant, and you, as a nonsmoker, chooses to patronize, what right do you have to dictate how I have to run my establishment? In the words of Norma Vincent Peale, choose another restaurant more to your liking.

[buckleyfan]

Q: You have plenty of non-smoking places to go. Why is it so abhorrent to you that we might have a few places to go?

A: I still remember when there was no place to go without smokers. One of the reasons there is a total ban movement is because the owners played only lip service to setting up non-smoking areas.

There is truth in that, but it doesn't answer the question. Unless you are looking at anti-smoking laws as punishment/revenge for past foot-dragging by some business owners.