It is the smoker who introduces a toxin into what would otherwise be clean (relatively speaking) air. Your view is an extremely egocentric one that puts your right to pollute the clean air over the right of people not to have to breathe it. EVERYONE HAS TO BREATHE WHEREVER THEY GO! It is the SMOKER who introduces the the foreign toxin into the air thereby altering the normal environment. When somebody goes to a bar and drinks, it intoxicates only that person. Not all the people around them. Smoking, by its nature, is intrusive and inconsiderate of the rights of others when done in an enclosed space. YOU are introducing the toxin to the air. Not the non-smoker. Not everybody who goes to a bar will always drink, but if there are smokers there they will always have to breathe that smoke. It is perfectly reasonable for people to expect to breath smoke-free air when in a public establishment because smoke is not there naturally. Smokers introduce the foreign element into the air. I smoke myself from time to time and if it's allowed in an establishment I will do it. But I think its a fine idea if they want to ban it indoors in public establishments because I am intelligent enough to realize that it is ME introducing the objectionable substance into the environment. In truth, I can't believe that as long as we've known of the hazards of smoking it hasn't been banned in public establishments long before now. But I've seen it coming a long time.