[Just another Joe]

Listen, you smokers just don;t want to admit the Locke's property theory isn't what this country is based on.

You're right.
This country was built on rebellion to a tyrannical dictator who excessively taxed a product without getting representation of those being taxed.

Now, what does that sound like?
Understand me, I am NOT, I repeat NOT, comparing myself to a founding father.
I'm not fit to shine most of their shoes.
It does make a striking comparison though, doesn't it?

[VRWC_minion]

This country was built on rebellion to a tyrannical dictator who excessively taxed a product without getting representation of those being taxed.

That was the bumper sticker reason. In reality, the states here had created a state that was soverign over its lands it didn't want to cede its power over to England and its King. These same states then endeavored to cut off relations with the King and used incidents like that to force a show down.

These states maintained there sovereignty over their territory, formed the federal gov't and 200+ years later ruled that smoking should be banned within their territory.