Interesting perspective, but the logic is a bit flawed. The reference to the bouncer getting killed, first and foremost, if you want to blame the ban, then you are stating that nicotine addiction is so strong that it creates the situation that someone will murder to smoke. Therefore, smoking should be made illegal all together, because the drug addiction is strong people will kill for it. Then the whole statement about private businesses should not be enforcing laws or telling people not to smoke. That logic can be applied to any law, like drug use or assualt or whatever. Saying that private businesses should not have to enforce one law, states that they dont have to enforce any law. I also notice quotes from a medical journal where the word "passive smoking" is used to describe the effect it has on people. What exactly is meant by passive or what are the parameters of the testing. The quotes are just random and there are no links to the overall study. To state that everything stated by one organization or group is propaganda can be said for the other. There are random quotes to the article and no empirical data refuting any claims, the writer just statest its a lie and the compares it to facism. That sounds like a facist move itself, claim the opposition is lying and then point to something that generally scares most people (i.e. hilter or nazism). They have done this smoking ban in CA without invading Poland, so the basis of wide spread nazism is a bit misleading. Truth be told, smoking does effect the people around you. Does it cause cancer or any thing else? That can be debated. But the fact is that everytime you light up in a closed space, you are effecting the people around. I know when I used to leave a club my throat was always scratchy and had some congetsion from the smoke. What does that mean medically? I dont know, but I am sure it's not good for you.