As a person with severe Asthma, I appreciate the smokefree businesses but I agree that banning smoking in outdoor areas is wrong. My workplace is smokefree inside but there are outdoor smoking areas and I am free to avoid them. My asthma is triggered by cigarette smoke and my pulmonary specialist says that I could have a fatal attack if confined indoors where people are smoking.
It's my choice to never patronize businesses that allow smoking. I'm not talking about businesses that have smoking areas because those don't work. If there isn't a notice on the door that the establishment is smokefree, I don't go in. That is my choice. I would never consider supporting a law to force private businesses to ban smoking on their property.
And there is the answer! It should be left up to the business owner and his patrons to have smoking or not. NOT the government!