>> Government intervention into whether a business allows a
> legal activity to take place on its premises is rarely necessary.

>gee, you'd have fit in perfectly with that Waco crowd.

If I wasn't such a nice laidback guy, I'd say f...ah, never mind.

That statement is absurd.
Making a comparison between a legal act (smoking) and what by all accounts
was a compound full of illegal activity is the worst kind of ad homenim
debate.

>I'm not saying the State should take over running a bar/club.

Yes you are. You're telling them what business decision they must make
concerning what legal activities they can choose to allow their customers to
do.



>> I'm tired of going to a nice restaurant and sitting next to a screaming
>> infant. Should I ask the state to prohibit children in restaurants?

>Are there really that many parents with screaming infants out to dinner?

You'd be surprised.

> Or are you just spending way too much time at Chuck E. Cheese?

Fortunately, no. Went there once on a service call many years ago.
Animatronic bears singing Beatles songs - now there's a law that outta be
passed!