Originally Posted by KMA-628

Licensing = regulation + bureaucracy + fees + oversight + more gov't programs + etc.

Bad equation in my book.

Sounds good as an idea, but it would just create more problems.

I say remove gov't from the equation.

Let demand rule. Let the market speak. But the people that don't like smoking actually have to get up off their duff and actually do something for once.

Why does the government have to do everything for you?

If it bothered you so much before these silly bans, why didn't you frequent non-smoking restaurants? Then, you tell the owner of the previous restaurant that you used to frequent, that you took your business elsewhere because he/she allowed smoking.

If enough people got off of their collective lazy asses and did this, their would be no need for a ban. Restaurants/bars that lost business because of smoking, would change their rules. Restaurants/bars that didn't lose business would stay the same.

Nobody loses.

Where did this mindset of the gov't doing everything for us come from?