Was it ever ILLEGAL TO BAN smoking in restaurants or other businesses or rental apartments?
The legality of laws enacted to prohibit smoking are still under scrutiny and being argued. Some folks can smoke all their lives and live to be 100 while others die young/suffer cancer and other health issues. Baby boomer generation all witnessed smoking being allowed & even promoted everywhere to being taboo today. Health studies came out; tobacco industry found to be putting addictive substances in the cigarettes…. Then activist groups got involved…leaving the business owner groaning. His customers smoke and and he feels he has the right to supply an environment that he chooses. Look at alcohol and Prohibition. Same thing went to extremes there, followed by all those successful illegal ‘speak easys’. Back to laws being legal. The legality is dependent on a majority concencus which is still being fought to this day. Legally there is the cigarette tax started back in the 70s under heavy opposition. Legally there are enforcements to place signs on business that allow legally limited
