[AppyPappy]

Sounds as if you'd be okay with Big Daddy reaching into private homes and cars to prohibit "smoking around kids," right?

I suppose you are okay with people beating their spouses and kids as long as the government doesn't stop it.

Hyperbole goes both ways.

[Madame Dufarge]

I suppose you are okay with people beating their spouses and kids as long as the government doesn't stop it.

Hyperbole.

[Max McGarrity]

I suppose you are okay with people beating their spouses and kids as long as the government doesn't stop it. ...Hyperbole goes both ways.

My statement is not hyperbole; it is current fascist planning. Yours, on the other hand, is since "beating" spouses and kids causes demonstrable damage. Parental smoking is no more than a RISK, a negligible risk at that, and the anti goal of removing smokers' children or forcing parents to quit smoking is ludicrous.