[TheBattman]

How hard is it to understand???

1. If I don't want to smell smoke, be around smoke, or see smoke, I don't go to a business that allows smoking.

2. I certainly appreciate businesses dividing the resteraunt into smoking and non-smoking sections. Of course, any smart business owner would do such without a law to require it - I am a non-smoker who will not go in a resteraunt if I can't get away from the smoke - MY CHOICE.

3. If you don't want to smell, breath, be around smoke - don't get a job where smoking is allowed - duh..IT's a CHOICE.

In a truly free-market system, the consumer makes the rules. If a business does not allow smoking and they don't have enough business to stay afloat - that was their decision to make. If a business does allow smoking and they don't get enough business to stay afloat - that was still their decision to make.

The market will direct a business owner's decision making. If it doesn't then they deserve to be out of business. The government has no right or obligation to make these sorts of decisions for business owners.

[SheLion]

I certainly appreciate businesses dividing the resteraunt into smoking and non-smoking sections. Of course, any smart business owner would do such without a law to require it - I am a non-smoker who will not go in a resteraunt if I can't get away from the smoke - MY CHOICE.

Smoking and the non-smoking sections are great. That is the way to go. And most places (bars/restaurants) invested in big smoke eaters, and they do wonders. They make it pleasant for everyone.

I know I have been in places years back, where there were no smoke eaters, and you could cut the smoke with a knife. I, being a smoker, didn't like THAT either. But today's innovations with smoke eaters are just wonderful.

However, even that isn't enough for the smoke nazi's.