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And yet, in reality, this doesn't always happen. For years, people complained about restaurants being full of cigarette smoke; and some people had to stay home and not go out because they could not tolerate cigarette smoke. AFAIK, no one ever, anywhere in the US, voluntarily opened a restaurant that did not allow smoking. I may be wrong; but I would have remembered if any restaurant I had ever encountered had ever advertised the fact that they were a non-smoking restaurant, so that I could have gone there.
I'm fairly sure that I've encountered no-smoking restaurants without there being a local law against anyone smoking in restaurants at all, but I can't remember any specifics offhand of those cases. I do, however, specifically remember one of the casinos in Atlantic City heavily advertising that they were completely smoke-free, before the no-smoking laws were passed in NJ.