Smoking Bans are Bull$h!t

ok so basically a city government (like NYC) decides: lets tell private businesses no smoking!

just for the sake of arguments lets keep the parameters simple: restaurants, diners, and bars.

i dont think the government should have the right to tell private business owners they arent allowed to have people smoke in their establishments.

you can say that the employees or the other patrons shouldnt be subjected to secondhand smoke, but they CHOOSE to work there or visit the establishment. now i can understand that b/c im not a smoker. hence i wouldnt work in a place or eat in a place that allows smoking. so i likeminded people should follow suit instead of trampling on the rights of owners and smokers.

if a business sees that if smoking hurts their business then it should be at their whim that they decide to ban smoking all together. seriously the market should dictate an owner how to run their business, not the government.

bars are a special case, i know some bartenders let smoking go on in their bars, where as others follow the rules. this stupid rule hurts bars, because people will go to one bar over the other if they know they can smoke in one place instead of the other. and non smokers, for the most part we dont give a $h!t if there is smoking in a bar, i mean its a freaking bar, come on whats one vice over another.

i dont know what else to say, what do you guys think?