Colin, Colin, Colin,
Either you just don't get it (unlikely) or you are being deliberately obtuse (very likely)...
I said it has nothing to do with smoking and everything to do with private property. If the people who own/control the mall (owners and/or shopkeepers) want to ban smoking, that is their right; but NOT the right of the gov't. Most people have allowed themselves to be LED to believe that the Constitution tells the people what they can do. Quite the inverse is true. It is meant and written to tell the Government what IT is not allowed to do. Read it, and note the way it is written. For instance the, 1st Amendment starts out: "Congress shall make no laws..." . There is little doubt what is meant there. It doesn't say, "No citizen shall...".
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