[FrankR]

"Panel recommends banning all indoor public smoking in Cleveland."

About 5 or 6 years ago when all this anti-tobacco crap was starting, Rush predicted that eventually it would be against the law to smoke in your own home...well....all that's left is the omission of one word..."public". Then it will be:

"Panel recommends banning all indoor public smoking in Cleveland."

At that point, the anti-smoking cycle will be complete, and then they'll concentrate on the next freedom they want to remove.

The "secondhand smoke" theory has been discredited about as many times as it's been lauded...but pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...it's more of a "smoke screen" than a smoke problem.

Lawyers are salivating at the next "legal" product that will be outlawed and villified, so they can cash in on our freedoms again. Rabid anti-smoking zealots are interested in only their little piece of the world, and their freedoms...not anyone else.

If they can outlaw smoking in your own home, then they can outlaw other things like, for instance, making it against the law for you to put gas in your SUV; sueing you for lighting your charcoal grill, etc.

What is it going to take for American to give these people the collective finger and tell them to get lost?

[Gabz]

If they can outlaw smoking in your own home,

They have already started.

In Delaware if you run a business from your home, smoking is prohibitted during business hours under certain circumstances.

In Maine if you are a foster parent you can't smoke in your home or your car. (at least it was proposed, don't remember if it went through yet)

The camel has more than just it's nose under the tent.

[american spirit]

Excellent points but the real key issue is where does any city council get the authority to pass and enforce measures that infringe on the personal property rights of the public they're supposed to be serving. Codes and regulations created by these folks ARE NOT LAW and any type of citation issued by them for a violation can be easily defeated. Any codes/reg's they pass are only enforceable upon those folks associated with the "municipal corporation" as an employee or contractor and not the public at large. It's the same as if IBM was trying to enforce their corporate codes on the public....it's not enforceable in any way.

[MissTargets]

Rabid anti-smoking zealots are interested in only their little piece of the world, and their freedoms...not anyone else.

If it does not effect them, they don't care. But someday, one of their freedoms will be taken from them.

Just like the assault weapons ban. Certain gun owners, who do not own those, so called "ugly" guns, do not care if they are banned. It does not effect them. But one day, their particular type of firearm, just might be next.