Just as I welcomed a smoke-free restaurant environment by force of law
How about this, Aligncare? The bar/restaurant OWNER gets to decide whether the establishment will be smoking or non-smoking and we keep the damn government out of it. You don't like the policy, you don't go there. Consumer patronage, therefore, not some government official, decides, even with your support.
What did I say earlier on another thread?: The essence of collectivism, call it Liberalism, industrial democracy, social democracy, Socialism, Progressivism, Communism, or any other of it thousand faces: its bid to force [everyone] to obey.