You do make a point, though, about never having been in a bar. Many of these anti-smokers have never been in a real barroom in their lives and would literally be scared sh!tless to go into one.
Does it make sense to you that these little farts would want to control the actions of people they don't know, don't want to know and whom they would dislike if they did know?
Bars are full of the same people who wouldn't sit down and shut up when the authority figure (teacher) told them to.
Bars are full of the same people who don't obey the security bureaucrats (police).
Bars are full of tired, sweaty people that actually do the things that keep us going: deliver bread and milk to our stores, repair roofs, build houses, work on motors and engines, fix our toilets and light switches, waiters and waitresses from other joints kicking out the jams on a night off, people from all walks of the working world who only want an ice cold drink and a butt to go with the conversation and laughs.
Now Mike Ditka is prolly a heck of a guy to slug down a few brews with and enjoy a cigar and some banter, but would you want to go out after work (that is, if you went out for drinks, which you don't. Just using your post as a takeoff point) with Tacis and F16Fighter?
No? Neither would anybody else here and we don't want dress wearing imitation men like them telling us what is and is not acceptable behavior either.
It doesn't make sense to me, but it's certainly a common phenomenon. As the mother of a large family, I can't leave my house without hearing from people who think it's their business how many children I have!
I sympathize with smokers, although I didn't when I lived with them, because it did make me sick. Although I prefer to drink (and not smoke) at home rather than in bars, I do understand that many people enjoy smoking. If I as a nonsmoker find the atmosphere of Mike Ditka's restaurant disagreeable, it's my responsibility to go somewhere else, not insist that the world accommodate me.
With this smoke-nazi nonsense, and with the Fairfax County (Virginia) nonsense, I wonder if those in power are really out to close the bars for some reason...