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Originally Posted by The_Dunedan
I simply don't believe in being -forced- to partake, or in being -forced- to live according to what is popular among my neighbors.
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See, the thing is, you already are. Restaurants already have other regulations that "force" them to run their business a certain way. There are regulations on food handling, serving alcohol, and how the establishment itself is setup and run. To a restaurant, a smoking bylaw is something added, not something out of the blue tacked onto their free-for-all way of doing business.
Other business types have regulations too. The fact that one isn't allowed to smoke in hospitals isn't so far fetched, is it? Well, bans on places like restaurants are based on the same principles.
That there are people who wish they can have a meal without worrying about the party of six next to them all sparking up just as they're getting started on their entrees is merely one aspect of the issue.