Here, Cloudy, let me clear it up:
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Look, Yorick, I don't want to force smoke into your lungs any more than I want to force a pub owner to run his business this way or that. Have smoking bars and non-smoking bars. Outlaw smoking in public places, if you like. But, don't place the protection of YOUR freedom on SOMEONE ELSE'S PROPERTY. There has to be a balance here that doesn't tread on ANYONE's liberty.
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If pushed on the issue, I may very well argue prostitution should be legal -- after all, an actress can sell her sex, whether it's porn or Halle Berry in Monster's Ball. And, I might argue we should legalize all drugs, make folks legally responsible for their idiotic acts while hyped up on drugs, and let the chips fall where they may (Malthusian though the concept may be). Besides, who is the government to decide "X drug is good and legal while Y drug is evil and illegal." Sounds very subjective to me.
However, those are off-topic. When there is a way around an issue causing social disgruntlement that avoids trampling on individual rights, we should seek it. That is my point. The government goes too far all the time, and I for one am sick of it. Anti-smoking campaigns have done a wonderful job educating the population. At this point, non-smoking venues are common, and non-smoking bars are around as well. And, will become more common.
But, when the movement to educate the people becomes a movement to regulate those who don't want to learn the lesson, I feel we've gone too far. At that point, the anti-smoking campaign has done TOO good a job.