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I have no problem with some smoking bans. I do think others go too far. But I would favor a ban on gay kissing in public. What's the difference in that and public nudity? It offends the moral sense of the majority, so do it in private. They sell legalizing gay sex to us as a privacy of the bedroom issue and then they spend 24/7 cramming it in our faces. Go back to your bedrooms like you promised.

Smoking is not so much a moral issue as a health issue. I think it is not tyranny for the majority to decide they do not want to tolerate public smoking. It is an issue that affects everyone present, not just the one that chooses to smoke. We are selfish. That the author is correct about. But the selfishness is just as much on the side of the in-your-face smoker as it is on the side of those who wish to not have smoke in their face. We are a selfish generation with the collective wisdom of a gnat. We might be very cute and clever, but we are a pack of nearsighted, arrogant fools (generally speaking and not including most freepers).

Back when liberty was worth fighting for it meant something entired deeper than whether or not you get to puff smoke in people's faces and flaunt your immorality with court-ordered public blessings. These are the issues of a spoiled generation.

Smoking is not so much a moral issue as a health issue.

Smoking on private property is a property rights issue. Any other explanation is pure BS.

And this thread isn't about homos. Stay on topic or find a gay bashing thread.

..... than whether or not you get to puff smoke in people's faces .

I never blew smoke in anyone's face. If there is a no smoking sign, I do not smoke. I find the sign that said "Smoking Permitted." I have always been a polite smoker. For myself, personally, I didn't deserve these bans. I pay cold hard cash for taxes just like most other people. In fact, I have paid a lot more then most people, just because I 'am' a smoker.

I didn't deserve this ban.