So it's okay if I pay a lobbyist who can get a law passed that makes you have to do things that I don't have to do, when we are basically in the same business?
So you think the bar & restaurant owners lobbied for the smoking ban? What about the owners of the private clubs, did they lobby for the smoking ban?
Nope. Neither the bar owners nor the private clubs did it. --The officious whiny little nicotine-Nazis did it.
But instead of cowboy-ing up and start a petition drive or suing the state for lack of due process or putting in a outdoor patio or refusing service to a nonsmoker (they know who they are); they'd rather use the Russian solution and get the courts to drag private clubs down into the dirt with them.