“And as far as Schieffer, he’s right in line with America’s view on smoking.”
Sounds to me like he is “right in line” with the nanny state on his views of smoking.
I do not see any difference between America and the Nanny state. The former is now the personification of the latter. Pretty much the populated areas anyway, however redoubts of individualism and liberty still prevail in the West and the South, but the WestCoast and the Northeast are bastions of NinnyNannyism.