Reply #2: Non-smoker, but not happy with the law.

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Leftist-libertarian with anarchical leanings here; Business owners have the right to make these decisions for themselves. If there's a niche in allowing smoking, they should be able to operate a business that allows that. I like Boulder County's law, with its provision for a separate ventilation system. Our law works and it's sensible and it allows business owners and individuals both to invest their dollars in their own choices.

I see a smoking ban as being the first step into legalized puritanism. I like my chocolate cocktails and limoncello and barenjaegers and Persephone's Ruins. Exotic booze is my moderated vice, and I'm an adult well aware of the health risks of drink. When one group of fanatics succeeds in banning one vice, the next group is encouraged. Next it will be fried food or chocolate or coffee or whatever else can be passed off as benefiting the CHILLLLLLLLLL-DRUUUUUUUN. (I go to bars because there are no children there.) I'm not a walking uterus and I get to make the decisions about what chemicals enter my body. As it happens, I feel safer with a smoker's second hand smoke than I do with the crap coming out of the Longmont Con-agra facility.

I will leave the state if any more of this puritanism gets enacted.

I'd much rather that smokers who butt-tossed were fined for attempted neglectful arson (rather than littering).