In La Crosse, we have smoky bars and smokefree bars. The rare times I go to a bar in this town, I usually go to the smokefree bars, because I prefer not to walk out with a migraine. That's my point. If there is a market for smokefree bars, people will build them, as they have here. If there isn't a market for them -- that is, if people aren't willing to put their money where their mouth is and patronize smokefree bars -- people shouldn't run crying to the government to do for them what they won't do for themselves, to cover for their own financial cowardice. You know why we have minimum markup laws for gasoline? Because gas stations used to engage in price wars, in which stupid customers would flock to the stations that were offering gas under cost (when it was obvious to anyone with the slightest shred of foresight what was going to happen), then cry bloody murder when the companies secured a monopoly and jacked the prices way up. If the customers had had the sense to patronize the little guys who were offering gasoline at fair prices, we wouldn't need minimum markup laws these days.
It's like the constant debates we have on Student Senate over imposing new segregated fees for every new service the campus wants to offer. "Well, if we don't charge EVERYONE for this wonderful service," proponents wail, "we won't have enough funding to keep it open!" Well, then good riddance, say I. Let the market decide. If the service would go under without mandatory funding, obviously there isn't much of a market for it. Forcing everyone to pay for a service only a tiny minority of students will actually use -- and which they don't even want badly enough to cough up an out-of-pocket fee when they do use it -- is just bad ethics, in my opinion. Every "important service" we offer to students on campus can be found somewhere off campus -- usually for cheaper than we can offer it.