Hayek goes barcrawling  In the coming months, Washington, D.C.,
will decide whether to join California, New York, and a host of
other towns and municipalities in banning the combustion and
inhalation of tobacco products in its bars and restaurants. To
the delight of the self-appointed guardians of public health, my
local watering hole may soon have the freewheeling ambiance of a
dentist's waiting room.  The putative logic of these laws is to
protect bar and restaurant workers. In reality, this is
something of a fig leaf: The primary support for smoking bans
seems to come from folks who don't like having to dry clean
their clothes after a night out, and who are therefore asserting
their God-given right to visit any bar or restaurant they like
on their own terms, owners and other customers be damned.  But
the anti-smoking movement's official spokespeople still seem to
have the minimal decency required to be ashamed of such a naked
appeal to self-interest. Instead, they've been forced to resort
to the argument t