Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
It was a great comprise law. Whats bs is people who just have to be pathologicaly busy bodied enough to poke their noses into other people's business where it dosent even belong.It worked beautifully? For whom? Clearly these "smoking section" compromises were, and are, a meaningless bad joke.
I was a smoker for many years of my life, but then overcame that drug addiction around 20 years ago. It was during that time of "non-smoking sections" in restaurants. Now while they make have had a non-smoking section, it was NOT non-smoked filled. Smoke permeates everywhere indoors. And while it may be less volume of the cancer-causing pollutants, it is still there. In the air, in your lungs, on your clothes, in your hair, etc, even if you never lit up, nor where within 20 feet of smokers indoors.
Now, set the customers health and well-being aside for a moment. What about the wait staff, and other employees who have to spend all day in that environment? There is clear, researched proofs that that level of smoke exposure has negative impacts on human bodies. Non-smoking wait staff, end up with lung cancer. Well worth it for smokers freedoms to be inconsiderate of others?
You decry such laws as "nanny state"? Complete BS. Without some adult telling the reckless what they can and cannot do in serving the public, you end up with abuses that harm public health and society as a whole, such as racial discrimination by business owners. Nanny state to say you can't have a "whites only" section? Is that nanny state to you too?
Take away environmental regulations, for instance, and you think some business owner will pay more money to have his dangerous chemicals disposed of properly, versus just dumping them for free right into the river behind his land he owns? Time and time again proves, they need someone to establish laws for them to follow, for the sake of everyone else. Without them, they will not choose to do the "right thing". That has been demonstrated countless times throughout human history.
Healthy societies are based upon regulating behaviors of its members for the sake of everyone else.
It's their choice to make and not yours.