[supercat]

I think it's anti-freedom to insist that I breathe smokers smoke AT ALL.

Then stay out of places where smokers congregate.

If a business owner decides that he prefers the business of smokers to the business of people like you, what right have you to complain? If you don't like the policies of a business, go to a business whose policies are more to your liking. Generally, the marketplace will ensure that when different people have different contradictory desires in how they are served, different businesses will emerge that serve people differently. At least when government allows that to happen.

[Quix]

I have some sympathy for your perspective.

Though there are some places where it's hard to avoid and hard to find substitute businesses. Thankfully, it's tons better than it used to be.

[pageonetoo]

"Generally, the marketplace will ensure that when different people have different contradictory desires in how they are served, different businesses will emerge that serve people differently." But the anti- crowd doesn't believe in the marketplace. They feel they can control others behavior because it "offends" them. My mom smoked Pall Mall NON_FILTERED for more than 30 years, before stopping. She will be 81 in Feb. My dad smoked the stinkiest cheap cigars he could buy (el productos, being his favorites, and believe me, I can still smell them, forty years later). They wanted to smoke, and they decided to quit. Both decisions were their choice. I smoked cigarettes from age 14 through 28. I stopped, more than 25 years ago, because I wanted to quit. I started smoking cigars a few years ago (real stinky EXPENSIVE ones, like macanudo, etc), and enjoy one with a glass of good port wine, or just lounging out by the pool, with a soda. The marketplace allows choice. Unwarranted government control of the marketplace creates artificial barriers to ..." life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This WAS America, but is quickly becoming ameriKa, because people like you don't like what I do! Sorry, but I suggest you go somewhere else, if you do not want smoke in your eyes! Otherwise, shut up, and pass the ash tray!