While I enjoy the benefits of going to the brewhouse and coming home smelling nothing like smoke, I don't agree with the city wide ban on smoking in restaurants / bars etc.
My reasoning is that each store should have the right to say whether they are a 'smoking' or 'non-smoking' establishment. It isn't your right as a non-smoker to demand that any place you visit should be smoke free. It is, however, your right to eat somewhere else. You don't like how a business is run? then don't support it. If 70% of the people want non-smoking establishments, then businesses will cater to your needs. Supply and demand at it's basics. However, right now, 70% of the people are deciding what 100% of the people are able to do.
The government is over-stepping it's authority in saying that you may not allow smoking in your restaurant. It should be the right of the business owner to declare what they will or will not allow.
We have liquor licenses, maybe we should have tobacco licenses. Then consumer's would know ahead of time that a business allows smoking.
Anyway, that's my opinion. What's yours?
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