Smoking bans make no sense. It's just another way politicians try to control us. They get people to jump on their bandwagon by saying things like, "Now you can go out and have a good time and not worry about your clothes smelling like smoke." If your problemw ith epople smoking in bars is that your clothes smell like smoke, then go to bars that don't have smoking sections. Take strip clubs for example. If naked women offend you, it's really easy. Don't go to strip clubs. Just because one person decides they don't like naked women doesn't mean we should ban all public establishments from having naked women. If I'm a business owner and I want to open a bar where people can smoke, the government shouldn't have anything to do with it. Drinking is bad for your health, and when people drink they do stupid things that affect the people around them, so maybe we should ban drinking from public places?

I think they ought to make a rule that you an have either a smoking or non-smoking establishment. If you decide to allow smoking you put a sign on the door saying so, you advise potential employess that the job has some health hazards and if they don't liek smoke, they don't have to work there. Maybe even give the non-smoking places a bit of a tax break to make up for all the money they'll lose to the places that allow smoking. Be honest here, if you want to go out and have a good time, are you going to go to place where people can do what they want and have a good time, or go to a quasi facist establishment where they force everyone to act the same?

Don't punish smokers.