Because no one has learned the lesson when Carrie Nation's folly was carried to a national level?
First the smoke-banners have to finish what they started. Buffy Martin, the lobbyist for the American Cancer Society, told the Las Vegas Sun that banning smoking in casinos and in bars that find ways around the ban is "absolutely" on the horizon. Why?
"We have a duty to protect every single worker in this state," she told the paper. "I do think Nevada will become 100 percent smoke free in the future."
I think we should take people like Martin at her word: She won't rest until the last cigarette is pried from the lips of the last smoker in the last bar in this town. All for their own good, of course.
Listen, I'm under no illusions....
But I would rather run headlong into the icy embrace of the Grim Reaper than live a week in a world controlled by people who write laws for my own good. Because such people are more dangerous than a truck full of cigarettes.
...I asked manager Michael Hackett why I shouldn't be allowed to smoke in a bar. Children aren't allowed there. People who choose to show up there know what they'll find. What's the harm?
He had no answer. But that's because the real answer is that people like Martin and Hackett think they know better what's good for you than you do.
Because no one has learned the lesson when Carrie Nation's folly was carried to a national level?
There is no end to the meddling.
You stopped too short. The bit below where you stopped was priceless.
I was just about to post this before I saw your post.
The part about the 'Truckload of Cigarettes' was priceless.