Quote Originally Posted by Bob the Awesome
Sorry for the double post, but I want to clarify my position. The issue here is you not wanting to have tobacco forced upon you. That's perfectly reasonable. We are meant to have a 'freedom of life', I think staying away from carcinogens counts.

However, you have no need to enter a bar. A bar is the owner's property, and what you're saying is many of you have made the mistake of smoking, and because of that, feel you should have power over his property. It's true this applies to things such as schools, hospitals, parks, and stuff paid for by tax money (as the general public 'owns' it) but I don't know where you all get off on thinking you can tell people what to do with their property. If you don't want to be around it, go somewhere else.

If there's a demand for smoke-free restaurants and bars, there will be smoke-free restaurants and bars. It follows the core principles of capitalism, and seeing as how here in Ohio many places were non-smoking before the ban, I have no reason to believe the system doesn't work.

I'd try reading up on this a little Classical liberalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
and familiarize yourself with many of the core principles that were taken into account by the Framers. Might help your understanding some.
I consider myself very liberal, but thanks for the article.

That's exactly what I've been doing. I've quit going to certain places and hanging around with certain people that couldn't understand I wasn't up to getting nuked with smoke any more.