[VRWC_minion]

The real answer is you, coward.

I see it is painfully obvious to any reader that by resorting to names you have lost the debate over the power of the state to regulate smoking in its borders.

One case would have done it but we both know it doesn't exist.

[Protagoras]

The only thing painfully obvious is that you are a cowardly thug. Sending someone else to force people to run their businesses as YOU see fit. Too cowardly to go and push the gun in their face yourself and force them to make everyone put out their cigarettes, you ask government thugs to do it for you. Pathetic little sniveling dwarf.

You must have had the crap beaten out of you at recess everyday as a kid, and are trying to catch up now.

[Protagoras]

the power of the state to regulate smoking in its borders.

They have the power because they have the guns. I never said they didn't. Your lack of reading comprehension is only eclipsed by your lack of balls.

What they don't have is the legitimate power.