Keep your cancer to yourself

Will someone please explain to me why smoking is still allowed in restaurants and bars?

I cannot understand why restauranteurs are fighting so hard to have smoking be allowed. Their claim is that a smoking ban will drive away customers and thereby decreasing their revenue. Do they think that smokers will stop eating altogether if smoking is banned? Have they ever considered how much business they are losing by banning smoking? Why are these people so stubborn? Look at what success cities abroad have had with a smoking ban. People don't stop eating and drinking just because they can't smoke anymore. What does smoking have to do with anything?! If anyone's been paying attention at all, Hong Kong's only smoke-free restaurant/pub, Dublin Jack, is still alive and kicking despite being the only pub to have banned smoking.

I for one, would be more inclined to eat out and go out in if there was a smoking ban in place. Nowadays, when I'm forced to sit in a cloud of carcinogenic air, my eyes water then dry up, I can't breathe, and I end up smelling like an ashtray, a.k.a. shit. How is that a positive night out?

I'm angry and I'm negative about smoking, so kill me... wait, you already are.