The way I see it, she didn't go to jail for smoking around the kids; she went to jail for defying a court order.
So how long will it be before this court order morphs into a law? How long before Joe Sixpack takes a break from his job at the city museum and steps out front to smoke a cigarette when a bus full of school children on a field trip pulls up and unloads? What happens next? A local police officer on foot patrol sees that the children's lives are now in peril because of this, this..., this SMOKER! The LEO springs into action and slams the smoking perp to the pavement where he is read his rights and dragged off to the pokey.
Could it happen? One day perhaps?
That's sort of like when a federal judge actually levied a tax on Kansas City, MO. After the tax was finally removed as unconstitutional, the judge ordered the KC City Council to levy the tax, or else go to jail for contempt.
Mark
"....she didn't go to jail for smoking around her kids, she went to jail for defying a court order."
Well that perspective tidies things up nicely. Not much more to say on this issue. If the events in Eastern Europe circa 1940s were viewed in this enlightened manner, we could understand that the Rabbi wasn't shot through the lungs for not getting on the train, but for defying a court order.
A ridiculous and unconstitutional court order at that.