Yeah, right The number of Americans who smoke has dropped in the past few years because "we" shamed them into quitting that nasty habit.
You don't think smoking bans and high taxes on cigarettes might have had something to do with it?
There is a subset of "conservative" thought that insists everyone comply with their particular, mostly puritanical standards of conduct -- or else. These people won't settle for moral suasion, or "shaming" the miscreants into behaving as prescribed by the mullahs of morality. No, that's too much work for too little satisfaction.
Rather, like the prohibitionists of old, they would enact laws to prohibit what they find offensive, such as smoking in public. And strip clubs. And the list goes on.
Thank god...antoher rational voice!!
look out....its rough out here in Moral Maroon Land.