But is it the job of bureaucrats and politicians to tell the owner of an establishment whether or not to allow smoking? If the owner decides to ban smoking, or anything else, that is his business because, well, it's his business. When the government does it it’s petty tyranny.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.