I see this argument a lot. PROPERTY RIGHTS!
The reality is society has a fundamental “right” to limit, proscribe, regulate, or restrict addiction and other vices commonly called nuisances in economic talk.
Epstein doesn’t have the right to rape children on his property.
7/11 doesn’t have the right to display porn.
Islam doesn’t have the right to female genital mutilation.
You don’t have the right to chickenhawk boys on your property.
You don’t have the right to put a leather tanning factory next to my house.
etc.
So I guess you’ll be sending words of support to the Australian vegan suing her neighbor because she doesn’t like the smell of meat on their BBQ.
The smell of smoke is harmless unlike the other things on your list.
That's because it is the correct argument.
The reality is society has a fundamental “right” to limit, proscribe, regulate, or restrict addiction and other vices commonly called nuisances in economic talk.
Please tell me where in the federal constitution is this right enumerated. Hint: the Commerce Clause isn't the answer.
Epstein doesn’t have the right to rape children on his property.
Are you REALLY equating smoking with the physical act of child rape?
7/11 doesn’t have the right to display porn.
Actually, they do...they've chosen to cover up the mags and/or not sell certain filthy magazines out of market concerns. In certain cases the local govt imposes community restrictions, presumably out of concern for minors. If so, I guess you're equating an adult coming in contact with smoke and a child seeing pornography, which candidly is messed-up.
Islam doesn’t have the right to female genital mutilation.
There you go again, equating physical violence with smoke.
You don’t have the right to chickenhawk boys on your property.
I don't even know what that means and I'm not googling it, but you seem to have a deep association of child endangerment of a ghastly variety with smoking.
You don’t have the right to put a leather tanning factory next to my house.
On the contrary, in certain towns like Houston where zoning laws permit such freedom, yes.
Look, I get it...you don't like smoking. Indeed, I don't like my clothes stinking of smoke after I leave a club. That's all well and good. It's a free country. But your desire to use the state to regulate freedom is akin to that of the DNC. Why stop at smoking? Let's ban MAGA hats, or car exhaust, or wood burning stoves, or coal-fired generation plants, caffeine, trans fats etc. You are greasing the left's slippery slope.