I can't wait to hear the Libertarians howl about this, even though there's no government intervention involved -- it's a private entity, making its own business decisions. But they always howl. We've got one person down here, a fairly well-known regional author, who is adamant about not coming to cons any more because, goddamit, zie has the RIGHT to smoke in zir own ROOM, and the hotel's chain-wide policy* is nothing but oppression. Flaming Libertarian, of course.

* You're probably aware of this already. Most of the major hotel chains have gone completely non-smoking over the past few years. No smoking rooms provided at all. They finally figured out that the cost of maintenance of those rooms was more than the revenue they were making from having them. No smoking in the public and function spaces has been around for a lot longer, but the room thing is relatively new.