[trumandogz]

Actually, I am opposed to smoking bans. However, as long as the government is responsible for protecting the people against threats, real or perceived, smoking bans will continue to be implemented across the country.

In other words, there is no going back to the days where you could smoke in restaurants, airplanes, grocery stores and schools. Those days are over and it is what the majority of the public demands from their government.

[Madame Dufarge]

In other words, there is no going back to the days where you could smoke in restaurants

In other words, there is no going back to the days when private property rights were respected and protected by law.

Thanks for declaring yourself a champion of mob rule, too.

How pathetic you and your buddies are.

[Gabz]

In other words, there is no going back to the days where you could smoke in restaurants.....

Oh really? Unless I choose to patronize a restaurant where the owner has chosen to prohibit smoking, and there are several that I do patronize, I can smoke in the majority of restaurants I patronize.

[lndrvr1972]

Hey people it started with smoking bans and now you see what is going on in NYC with trans fats. This nanny state ideas of what they think is good for us will only get worse. You will see non-beef establishments and so on. Yeah many people favor the non-smoking areas but this is only the tip of the iceburg.

[SoCal Pubbie]

"In other words, there is no going back to the days where you could smoke in restaurants, airplanes, grocery stores and schools."

I wouldn't be so sure. If society can go from a time when such a thing was unthinkably draconian, to today when people welcome the government making such basic decisions in our daily lives, don't be surprised if the pendulum swings back again sometime in the future.

Ownership of gold, owning more than one media outlet in the same town, and alcohol are all examples of things that were once legal, then outlawed, then made legal again. I'm sure others can think of many more examples.