This should be fought all the way to the supreme court in my opinion. The government has NO right whatsoever to tell me or anyone where they can or cannot smoke. This merely gives them a stepping stone to take away more rights and more liberties from us. I completely and totally understand the owners of a business making rules about smokers in their businesses. But the government? No. Don’t the have more important things to do? I am a non-smoker, but that doesnt mean that I dont care about other peoples rights. Non-smokers tend to treat smokers like diseased people. You could get hurt more by the polution in the air in some cases than second hand smoke.
Go ahead and let resturuants and businesses decide for themselves whether they do or do not want to let smoking happen in their resturaunts. But get the government out of the picture. This is not their place, they might as well ban sex toys.... oops wait… they all ready did that too.

Dear Opinionwriter,
I have not smoked inside a public place since the 1980’s.  That seems not to please you guys either.  Fairhope has gone as far as to say that you can’t even smoke in a public parking space.  Smokers need to shop too and shopping takes time when you are spending money.  Protecting the public and isolating one sector of the population is mean spirited and I will not spend money in Daphne if you go to extremes.  I haven’t blown smoke on one soul inside your city.  Didn’t the State of Alabama file a suit against the cigarette companies for damages done to us, yet smokers couldn’t get a free pack of gum or a patch even after they claim it was on our behalf.  Instead, they increased the cost of cigarettes so that we can further be isolated.  I’d rather they had made the tobacca companies create a brand of cigarettes that reduces the addictive qualities of a cigarette three months at the time, as in staged, about the same way they addicted so many boomers unknowingly.

I will no longer shop in Daphne.  You have nothing that I can’ t buy in Foley, Robertsdale, or Bay Minette.  My tax monies can go to people who do not try to overly contol people.  As long as tobacca is not a controlled substance, you are far reaching and meddling in the lives of other people.  I have already stopped flying, eating out, and shopping in malls.  Food stores where the last place that I could go and Walmart in Daphne will lose all of my business, and also the oil change people, and the car detail people, and the furniture stores that have such beautiful display windows, they won’t see me walking outside them looking at their goods either.  I do not hand my liberty over to anyone, then reward them for taking it.