Why not just let the market fill the demand for non-smoking establishments?
• Under no other circumstances does government let businesses that are motivated by profit decide whether or not to offer health protection to their employees and patrons. • In other important health and safety matters-pollution controls, food storage and handling-government regulates the behaviour of business, regardless of whether or not compliance affects their bottom line. • Even if the public could make the choice to frequent only non-smoking establishments, the workers in the smoking establishments and the children who must accompany their parents would not have that choice and their health would still be at serious risk.
