All of us smokers have warned on this board the slippery slope we've been subjected to because of our habit.
We are not surprised at this. We knew that once the smokers were under the thumb of the government and PC crowd, the next group would be the obese. And mark my words, they won't stop at obesity. Just being overweight will be cause for all sorts of restrictions.
While you may be right about restrictions, I would think the first thing will be employees to staff the Department of Fatology. Then there will be course requirements to receive a MSF (Master of Social Fatology). Then they are off and slogging.