Has anyone ever heard a bar employee complain about smoking? Me neither... must have forgotten how with their rediculous tips. Or, they just accept it as part of the job, just as how cops and military accept possible acute lead poisoning as part of theirs.
The issue is elimination of free choice in a free market by the government for an activity that is not inherently malicious and has easy solutions. What's next?
Even worse, is the clumsy and incompetant manner in which they are enacted- in my home state (WA) the smoking ban was enacted with no provisions for cigar or hookah bars. Thus, some irritated and misguided people basically shut down peoples' businesses for their own convenience, even though they would never patronize those places in the first place.