LOL!!!! I doubt that. Yes, there are the anti-smoking nazis who go too far, and I'd just as soon they went away. But this is not the "nose under the tent" for such folks, it's just a minor battle in their larger war.
But your insistence that this is an assault on fundamental human rights is ridiculous. It could be nothing more than the fact that smokers stink things up for that large majority of people who don't smoke, and who do not believe that you have a fundamental right to stink up the room for everybody else.
Every encroachment once gained gives the aggressor the greenlight for more aggression. If you can't see the simple fact that the anti-tobacco crowd doesn't mean to stop there, you'll deserve it when your ox is gored.
The same people behind the tobacco settlement are the very people leading the charge against "Big Food". Do you think these greed mongers will be satisfied with that?
Big Lumber
Big Auto
Big Clothing
Big Pharmaceuticals
I myself find pushy, bossy people insufferable, yet I make no attempt to ban them, merely to avoid their presence.
This laissez-faire attitude of mine is something that anti-smoking folks won't extend to me, even though they'd never be caught dead in any of the sawdust-and-blood-on-the-floor gin mills that I guzzle and fight in.
Why can't the wusses among us stick to their damn fern bars and leave us toothless, bloodknuckled, scarred up old hard core to ourselves?
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely 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 own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis