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"Critics say it's not the government's job to tell people where they can smoke, and call the measure a violation of their rights."

It's also not their right to tell people if they have to buckle up or not; or own guns or not; or pray in public schools or not; or speak the word of God without fear or not; or talk on a cellphone in their car or not; or protest in front of an abortion clinic or not; or buy car insurance or not; or ask their representives in congress to appoint conservative judges who do not change the constitution or not. Yet the liberal left continues to violate and legislate our God given rights away every day; one right at a time and some people in the left wing have not noticed how they are deceived day by day.
To all those who love liberty; vote conservative republican before the boot heel of left wing liberalism destroys all our freedoms.

So I guess it is ok that people who choose not to smoke or prefer not to breathe stinky second hand smoke don't have any rights to breathe clean air - not even in their own home?

I have a friend who lives in an upstairs condo with avid smokers downstairs. They sit on their patio and smoke like chimneys and the smoke drifts up into her place. Her condo absolutely stinks. But in this land of "freedom", she has lost her right to breathe clean air..... When common courtesy is lacking and their right to smoke infringes on her right to breathe clean air - I have zero problems with this legislation. Perhaps it will cause some folks to be a little more considerate, whether it be with the volume on their stereo or their drifting smoke.