I have been opposed to smoking bans since the very beginning when they just wanted smoking and non smoking sections.
As to limits on what rules they can set? That cat was out of the bag long ago - once it became acceptable to ban smoking in private business establishments, the green light was given to ban anything anywhere, for any reason.
Many of us saw this coming but were repeatedly shouted down that it would never happen - including right here on FR where there are very many posters who actually support any and all abuses heaped upon smokers and business which would like to cater to them.
I don’t like it, but it is already too late, especially for government owned properties and the reason is that “yes, banning smoking will better the lives of the non smokers in the buildings because they won’t be exposed to second hand smoke seeping under doors and through vents.” Even though that is so much BS, the sheeple believe it. Smokers are an easily discriminated against minority and it is perfectly PC to do such.
I recently went to a large hospital. Not only was the hospital non-smoking (they used to have a little hut outside for the unclean), but they also had signs saying that it constituted trespassing to go onto neighboring property to smoke, and would be enforced as such. I don’t know how they did this, since there was a presumably public sidewalk, but I have no doubt that smoking out there would result in a court date.
The cat is indeed out of the bag. Nowhere in their self-congratulatory signs was there any mention of the people harmed by this. They simply don’t matter.
I have little doubt that within 10 years most privately held apartment buildings will be similarly non-smoking.