[cinFLA]

A purely subjective position which you are free to state but have no right to impose.

That's the nice thing about states rights. The state has a right to limit your being able to blow smoke in my face.

[alpowolf]

States don't have rights. People do. States have delegated authority. Which does not include authority over what I consume. I don't smoke but that's my choice and not yours.

Someone smoking in their own home is not "blowing smoke in my face". And don't deny that smoking in the home is exactly what you want to ban. You'll do it step by step of course. And of course just like with govt's failed attempts to prohibit drinking and prohibit drug use this will fail too.

[Great Dane]

The state has a right to limit your being able to blow smoke in my face.

And what might one ask, can the state do about control freaks such as yourself.

[Gabz]

The state has a right to limit your being able to blow smoke in my face.

Ah, but there''s the rub...........You don't have the right to enter any private property you wish without the permision of the property owner. You have as much right to enter smoking permitted private business and demand everyone put out their cigarettes as I have to enter a non-smoking private business and light up.

In either case the owner is within his property rights to eject the offender.

But you don't like that, do you? You only think the owner of the non-smoking establishment has the right to eject the smoker, not the other way around. But because you couldn't get your way you had to get Big Brother government to do it for you.

so now you have more rights than the owner of the business - real conservative attitude, you should be proud of yourself.