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And individual liberties and property rights aren't being violated by other people smoking around you when you want to be breathing clean air?

Depends where that air is. In Minnesota, we have laws that ban smoking in public buildings and they are pushing to pass laws to make it so you can't smoke on public property that is outdoors as well. If that air is in a building that is owned by someone other than yourself, then no, you don't. The property owner can choose to do what they want with their building and can allow patrons to smoke or ban smoking on the premises if they so desire. You are not required by law to enter those places and thus can choose whether to go or not to go.

What if I had a habit of carrying around a tank of pesticide and spraying it in the air for my own enjoyment? Should there be pesticide and non-pesticide section to restaurants?

You can do that and the owner of that restaurant can decide to let you stay or kick you out. Perhaps if spraying pesticide in the air was a common social activity there would in fact be both pesticide and non-pesticide sections in restaurants. The reason that restaurants made those accommodations (at least in the past, before the recent smoking bans) is that a restaurant is like any other business and the owner wants to profit off of both smokers and non-smokers alike. However, I feel that society has changed quite a bit in past 10 years in regards to this issue and I wouldn't be surprised if businesses would just outright ban smoking on the premises since the majority of clientele would prefer to go a business which bans smoking rather than one that does not.

I only occasional smoke a pipe or cigars, so the issue does not affect me that much directly in regards to being able to smoke in doors at restaurants/bars/etc. However,the United States is a republic and has property rights, therefore, government has no right to tell those bars/restaurants/wherever whether smoking can or can't be allowed on their property. Society can do that by merely choosing to do business elsewhere.
 
One quick note, there is a bit of a tension between states rights and property rights. I would think property rights would trump state laws. For instance, in Minnesota you cannot buy beer at gas stations and grocery stores and liquor stores are required by law to be closed on Sunday, where as across the river in Wisconsin, you can do all those things. I think the Minnesota law is unconstitutional in regards to the federal constitution, but I'm not sure how that all plays out.
 
So I own my house, so that means I have property rights and can do whatever I want there. By this logic the government has no right to arrest me and my friends for shooting up heroin there.

Or what if I had a restaurant and prepared all the food in a barn full of horse poop. The health department would have no right to shut the business down because I own the property and can do anything I want. Anybody that came to my restaurant would do it under their own free will so everything would be good to go.

Hello and welcome to Midget Donkey's Horse Poop Dinner. Would you like pesticide or non-pesticide seating? The smell? That is the smell of freedom.
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I know I am asshole. I can't help myself.
 
Rough translation: "Protect your children - Don't force them to breathe" :lol:

We have that one in germany, too. I really like: "Smokers die early."

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So I own my house, so that means I have property rights and can do whatever I want there. By this logic the government has no right to arrest me and my friends for shooting up heroin there.

They can arrest you because using heroin is illegal. Smoking cigarettes is not illegal.

Or what if I had a restaurant and prepared all the food in a barn full of horse poop. The health department would have no right to shut the business down because I own the property and can do anything I want. Anybody that came to my restaurant would do it under their own free will so everything would be good to go.

Hello and welcome to Midget Donkey's Horse Poop Dinner. Would you like pesticide or non-pesticide seating? The smell? That is the smell of freedom.

My guess is that any restaurant that conducts themselves in that manner would go out of business soon after those details were made public, regardless of government intervention. The chinese restaurant in my home town soon went out of business after people found out where all those stray dogs and cats were going.

Though, what if the cuisine at Midget Donkey's Horse Poop Dinner was truly amazing... if people want to eat tasty shit, then by all means they have the right to do so, regardless of what I, being part of the majority or minority, has to say about it.

I know I am asshole. I can't help myself.

This is the beauty of freedom. You can engage in as much assholery as you so desire and reap the consequences there of.
 
While The police have no right to find out you are using heroin in your own home, they do have a right to know where you are getting it from.
This isn't actually correct. The simple act of possession of a controlled substance is a crime in most states whether you are on private or public property. In theory the police need have to have a warrant or plain sight exception (they see you shooting smack through a window) to come into your home and arrest you but it's still illegal to have it. So, doing something illegal in the privacy of your home offers more legal protections but it doesn't change the legality in most instances.