Way over the top, IMHO! And they wanted this to be kept out of the NEWS? TOO LATE!
FMCDH
I am perfectly willing to accomodate those folks that actually do have a problem with being around tobacco smoke (I do know some) but with that said...................this bovine excrement is getting totally out of (expletive deleted) hand.
Years ago, the State run nursing home in Delaware built a lovely pavilion (at tax payer expense) to afford their residents the ability to be comfortable in winter and summer when they wanted to have a cigarette. This was after all state run building went non-smoking. Everybody was happy.
When the total smoking ban went into effect in Delaware the State Home requested a waiver for it's smoking pavilion. Such a provision is written into the law, with the discretion up to the DHSS department. This is the same DHSS that spent tax payer funds to build the pavilion on the grounds of the Home run by this same DHSS. The request for a waiver was denied.
The bureaucrats making these decisions don't give a flying flip about the elderly who have been paying their salaries for years - - - does anyone think they would give a hoot about the disabled??????
I realize my example is from a different state - but I am sure it is no different in Maine.