The people have a fundamental right to proscribe items. They do it all the time. Free people match into voting booths, and freely vote to regulate something.
Penicillin comes to mind. Dry counties are very common in some states. Society says incest is wrong. Porn needs to be regulated and behind the counter at the 7/11. Examples abound.
Some cites in Nevada, make prostitution legal. That is their right.
Why is it smokers believe they shouldn’t be regulated?
remember your response to this thread when government comes after your chocolate, or your fried foods, or your sugary drink, or those extra 20 pounds you put on last winter.
Interfering with a businessman’s right to sell a legal product is very disturbing and a very slippery slope.
If you watched this story-these people proposing this law/regulation aren’t even local legislators/managers they’re basically bureaucrats.
That’s not the point.....a “HEALTH BOARD” got together in this town and decided they were going to ban tobacco. Without a vote, without any democratic process. Through their fake “authority” they decided they know what is better for you then you yourself.
It has nothing to do with regulation, or believing smoking isn’t a bad thing. It’s my right to smoke if I want, I can buy a pack of cigarettes. That’s fine. The wrong thing is that a small group of men can decide that for me....that is anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-Everything. If there were a vote to ban smoking, and it passed. Well the majority didn’t want people smoking anymore.
By the way, tobacco is already HIGHLY, HIGHLY, HIGHLY regulated, taxed, and monitored. Guess what, it hasn’t dissuaded anyone from smoking tobacco like man has done from the beginning of time.
That's not what's happening in this case.
“The people have a fundamental right to proscribe items”
Regardless, is it not desirable to promote freedom? Although the people “can” vote to limit your freedom (with certain specified exceptions contained in the Bill of Rights), freedom-loving people should resist such efforts.