To be fair it isn’t the left who is pushing the smoking ban across this country. There are some on the right who are doing the same thing..
There is a large contingent of Republicans who don't understand the principles of freedom or espouse them.
There is generally a little libertine in most Repubs, but this has changed over time as they are replaced with Greens, Closet Socialists, and faker liberals in the South and East.
All this do-gooder crap ticks me off. Politicians like Mike Huckabee got a lot of votes by voicing opposition to the helmet law, and then engineered laws against smoking and fat.
I can't tell you how disapointed I was in Huckabee because of this sort of politics.