Yeah... so I a big civil liberties guy, and I was opposed to these anti-smoking laws at first for all of these reasons.

Until I realized that we're at a classic case of competing liberties, precisely because of the business owners. People (including me) talk alot about there needing to be places where smokers can go by choice. Except this becomes a de facto "smoking everywhere" because no business owner in their right might would want to "exclude" people, right? So where do I get to go, huh?

It's not trampling on civil liberties if I require you not to urinate on people in public. And this is far more damaging to me than if you just peed on me.

I had a fantastic laugh/cry at this when it was posted. However, I'd like to mention that they had her on the Today show where she defends/explains herself. Might be worthwhile to post that, too, for completeness.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fQKNvPn3V-8