For the first time, an Ohio common pleas court has ruled that a state law which bans smoking in public places and in most places of employment is constitutional.

What this means is that private businesses, on private property, are being told by the state that they are unable to decide what legal activity can take place in their business.

It was wrong in California, it was wrong in New York, and it is wrong in Ohio.

Again, listen to the free markets: If there was a market for non-smoking establishments, if money was to be made by having businesses that were non-smoking only, then there would have been more of them before the ban.

Court upholds Ohio’s smoking ban as constitutional