Being Left Alone

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) is insisting Judge Alito will infringe on citizens' rights, including the right to 'be left alone'. I'm fail to see how such a broad statement could translate into any particular interpretation, but I am curious about the right of a business to permit legal activity within their privately owned establishment? A number of states (including New Jersey) are instituting 'lifestyle laws' where governments decide something is bad for individuals and hence illegal. Smoking bans are the beginning, but where is the end? Restaurants and bars are not allowed to permit smoking because it's harmful. What about serving alcohol? Cirrhosis is only one possible adverse result (belligerence is another). Fatty foods clog arteries, causing heart disease and high blood pressure. Shall we stop allowing the distribution of fatty food?

If citizens don't like eating or drinking in a building with smoking, they can choose to patronize another establishment. We relinquish the pieces composing liberty to government at our own peril. It's not about whether you like smoky bars or not; it's whether you desire constitutional freedom or not. I become irritated by things I dislike everyday. I do not arbitrarily distort the Constitution in order to eliminate them. If anyone can provide the constitutional justification for this ban, I'd love to see it.