[eadmund]

> My favorite example is how Austria was the last EU country to ban indoor smoking

Regardless of their reasons, they were right to oppose it, because banning smoking in private establishments is tyranny. Petty tyranny, not the headline-news type of stuff, but tyranny nonetheless. Smoking bans are wrong. It is perfectly fine for private establishments to ban smoking, or permit it, as they wish, but it is categorically wrong for the State to force them to.

[Rinzler89]

Why? Just because something is private does not give you the right to do whatever the fuck you wann do with it, since you're operating a business establishment.

An bar/club/establishment is not the same kind of private property as your own house where you can do what you want and let in whoever you want, it's a business that needs to comply with state laws. And state laws say non smokers shouldn't be forced to inhale tobacco smoke in establishments.