There it is! Let smokers have their place; let nonsmokers have theirs. It seems to me, from what I see in the market where I live, that the free market will accommodate both segments.
Admittedly, this doesn't help 10-year-olds with bronchitis every winter. It would be responsible if their parents recognized their responsiblities.
Two points:
1.) The bars I hang around in and have drunk(?) in for the last forty years do not allow ten year olds to belly up for a cold one.
2.) All normal adults avoid places that label themselves as "Family Restaurants" like the plague. What sane person could enjoy a meal surrounded by ankle bitters and little Yawehs?
My mother was a waitress and didn't allow us to eat out with them until we were in our mid-teens.
After all, childhood is for children and adulthood is for adultery. Er, anyhow, treating us as if we were all ten year olds is not gonna work.
If second-hand smoke causes bronchitis, then why have the rates of bronchitis remained relatively constant over the last thirty years, while the smoking population has more than halved? What do you have to say about the 10-year-old with bronchitis whos parents do not smoke?