This proposed smoking ban has some fuming

LA Times ^ | 1/30/07 | Maria L. La Ganga

[Technoman]

BELMONT, CALIF. — When the City Council of this San Francisco suburb voted to consider what could be the most stringent tobacco regulation in America, anti-smoking activists cheered. Banning smoking everywhere but single-family detached homes and their yards would be a big step forward, even in health-conscious California.

[Technoman]

If police begin breaking down doors to enforce this and the proposed draconian spanking law, those in law enforcement will seen with bitter contempt by those in the mainstream -- smokers, moms and dads trying to raise kids -- as law zealots brings more into their net.

[Michael.SF.]

the most stringent tobacco regulation in America, anti-smoking activists wackos cheered.

Fixed it.

[RedStateRocker]

Marijuana and cocaine were once legal, too; and now even some alleged 'conservatives' cheer when jack-booted thugs break down the doors of otherwise law abiding citizens to arrest and/or shoot those in possession of those substances.

[saganite]

Hope you've got your asbestos handy! LOL.

[ml/nj]

some alleged 'conservatives' cheer when jack-booted thugs break down the doors of otherwise law abiding citizens to arrest and/or shoot those in possession of [Marijuana and cocaine].

Really? Do you have an example or two in mind?

ML/NJ

[traditional1]

[DakotaRed]

"We have a right to breathe clean air. I think it's a great ordinance … I'm sure I'm in the minority."

I guess California intends to ban all cars, trucks, motorcycles, aircraft and manufacturing next?

Isn't it odd that so many people have all these "rights," but others don't?

[School of Rational Thought]

How does a smoking ban reconcile with legal marijuana smoking?

[joylyn]

Let me be the one to say it: It's fine to be in the country illegally, but if you live in an apartment and smoke a cigarette you'll be in trouble with the law. If you give your child a smack on the behind to keep him away from the hot stove, ditto, you can go to jail.

I'm glad I don't live in this crazy state.

[RedStateRocker]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1742448/posts

[redstates4ever]

"I'm a nonsmoker, and I'm all for it; I have asthma," said Alice Larson, 51, who was meeting a friend at a Mexican restaurant. "We have a right to breathe clean air."

Oh, how I'd love for Ms. Larson to SHOW ME where that right is. Is it right next to where liberals think every child has the RIGHT to a college education?