[AppyPappy]

Open a business and post a sign that says "No Blacks Allowed". Let me know what happens.

[stylin_geek]

You still continue to be obtuse about the difference between rights and "consensual transactions." Obviously you stopped learning and thinking, and nothing I say is going to make you stop and think about the underlying philosophy involved here.

[Paulus Invictus]

Or how about:

"No Jews Allowed" or "No Latinos Allowed" or "No Arabs Allowed" or "No Irish Allowed" or whatever race or ethnic or religious group people want to exclude from private businesses? All of the above have been used in the past-some with terrible consequences.

[A Navy Vet]

"Open a business and post a sign that says "No Blacks Allowed". Let me know what happens."

Apples and organges. Non-discrimination policies to ensure equal treatment for an act of birth is different from regulating legal consumption activities in private businesses. Having been a niteclub owner, I have some experience with this and, other than a few waitresses, most patrons had no problem with smoking and even expected it. Prior to the ban, bars and clubs did indeed lose business, they continue so. This issue should have been left to market forces.