Smoking Ban

In a nutshell: smoking bans are passing because they are popular. Smokers are a minority and considered a public nuisance. But when you start trampling on the minority, everyone loses. The reasoning mirrors the revulsion of the 'nuclear option' (destroying the rights of the minority for personal gratification, in this case an institution in place of a constituency). It destroys the very thing Americans love most; the right to complain about what bothers us.

This is a follow up on Being Left Alone.