And Washington's ban is official:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/251121_smoking07.html
No smoking in pubs & restaurants in NYC. No smoking on the beach in Santa Monica. In Michigan, a company called Weyco is testing employees for smoke and terminates them if they're caught smoking.
What's next--testing for high fat content foods? Smoking bans are just one of a littany of personal liberties and happiness pursuits that continue to be chipped away by the so-called do-gooders, those that think they are looking out for the "common good". Oh what new tyrannies await us around thy corner and under thy bed?
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
- C. S. Lewis
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