I don’t mind them flouting this unconstitutional nanny-state Bloomberg law. Europeans smoke. That’s one of the reasons they’re skinnier than we are.
I agree with you. People should light up in public just on general principles. Rolling over for the nanny-state only guarantees more intrusion into your life. The nannies of the world have an insatiable appetite for control; the mere fact that you live without their permission offends them.
As far as tobacco smoking, the nanny state is operative in all U.S. states and many countries. I fondly remember flying commercial when you could light up a few seconds after wheels-up. Nowadays, few countries are civilized enough to even have a smoking area inside a terminal. I’m told that Israel has them.
I recall being in Malpensa, the big airport outside Milan. “No Smoking” signs all over, smoking all over too. LOL. The authorities seemed to have a decent sense of restraint about it all, they’d see it, signal “no no,” and that was the extent of enforcement activity.
So you are okay with the establishment of two separate classes of people: Those that have to follow the government’s laws and those that don’t? None of these people would go against the politicians who started these laws, but then they don’t have to abide by those laws. It’s the same thing as Climate Change. Those laws and restrictions are only meant to apply to the “unimportant” people?