Stalin Would be Proud

[Werewolf]

What the heck is going on in NJ? That state is getting more and more wierd every day.

TRENTON, N.J. - Ashtrays have been disappearing in cars like fins on Cadillacs, and so could smoking while driving in New Jersey, under a measure introduced in the Legislature.

Although the measure faces long odds, it still has smokers incensed and arguing its a Big Brother intrusion that threatens to take away one of the few places they can enjoy their habit.

The day a politician wants to tell me I cant smoke in my car, thats the day he takes over my lease payments, said John Cito, a financial planner from Hackensack with a taste for $20 cigars.

Full Article: No Butts Behind the Wheel

NOW I am no fan of smoking. It killed both of my parents, an uncle and an aunt but smokers have rights too.

Their right to smoke ends where my lungs begin which means not smoking in public places as far as I am concerned.

BUT banning smoking in your private automobile is going too far! This kind of thing has got to stop before it gets any worse.

This attempt at banning smoking in cars is symptomatic of everything that is wrong with America today.

How to stop it though? How to stop it?

[Justin]

I don't smoke, but stuff like this makes me want to start up a four-pack-a-day habit and smoke myself to death.   I kinda doubt that the great beyond includes a bunch of goose-stepping nanny statist health Nazis that constantly natter on about doing things "for your own good."

[HForrest]

+1, Justin.

[jefnvk]

Their right to smoke ends where my lungs begin which means not smoking in public places as far as I am concerned.

I'd edit that to say public property (courthouses, parks, etc) and not just private property open to the public, and I agree.

[Standing Wolf]

We have met the enemy, and he is us.