The conflating of smoking where you aren't supposed to and smoking at all is the problem. The supporters of this waste of resources aren't saving anyone from smoking, which is their rationale for making a mockery of 9/11 and hall monitors of cops.
Pace the wildly overreaching interpretation of the Commerce Clause, we are becoming a nation of snitching moralizers. Is this the natural outcome of social conservatism wielding the levers of political power?
No.The things liberals believe are next to immoral and the things conservatives believe are immoral are much different.True conservatives aren't behind this fake morality on smoking, liberals are.