[Calico Cat]

This is what bothers me the most. What kind of bureaucrat would advocate going up to somebody who's risked his life for his country and order him to stop smoking?

How much will enforcement of this stupid law cost? Will police be conducting raids on bars and clubs and assessing fines to individual smokers, or to the owner?

Why do people tolerate this? Are people such helpless fools that they can't understand the concept of finding another job if you don't like where you work, or finding another place to drink if you don't like smoke?

It just astonishes me. The gall of the politicians, and the gullibility of their employers (you and I and every other taxpayer.)

[Freedom4US]

It's disgustingly fascist. I remember when California was going through the same thing -- and somehow, one interview with a "pro" smoker's rights made it past all the filters into the media. He was a World War II veteran who opined "We went to war to fight against stuff just like this, I can't believe this is happening."

What's funny about the USA is hearing people claim "It's a free country" this late in the game. I mean, we have federal regulations on what kind of *toilet* we can own. One can only imagine what manner of craziness is coming. And on our dime, too.

[Huck]

Why do people tolerate this?

We can tolerate a lot of BS as long as it is happening to someone else and not us. I daresay none of these smokers has had trouble tolerating anti-marijuana laws all these years.

[WindMinstrel]

What kind of bureaucrat would advocate going up to somebody who's risked his life for his country and order him to stop smoking

The empty-headed bureaucrat who's never served his country, of course.

[grania]

Why do people tolerate this?

If it doesn't effect them right now, they feel it's not a problem.

Are people such helpless fools that they can't understand the concept of finding another job if you don't like where you work, or finding another place to drink if you don't like smoke?

Yes

Until people start to realize that it's about freedom of choice and not about smoking, we'll just keep losing more rights.