It is used to achieve Socialism in a society indoctrinated by Liberal thought
It is the same method being used the the Gun Control Lobbies in this country..
If one were to look into many other societal restrictions of the day, one would find numerous other examples of how individual rights and freedoms are being corrupted, personal responsibility is being abdicated, and lifelong governmental control is being realized by those that want nothing less than total control of "the masses"..
They call themselves proletariat but they are worse than the bourgious they blame and denigrate in their calculated seizure of power..
The seat belt laws and the non-smoking laws are prime examples of that "incremental approach" - the old story about the frog in the pot.
The seat belt laws haven't stopped their creep.
Now on the highways in Texas are billboards asking people to report others they see on the highway who are not buckled up.
Very soon we will see billboards asking motorists to report people in other cars who are smoking.
First it will be "for the children", then it will be "to protect the environment".
Hogwash!
It's about control!