John Stossel on Government Control Freaks

Rule-makers always want more. At
first, they just asked for bans on TV’s cigarette ads. Then they
demanded no-smoking sections in restaurants. Then bans in
airplanes, schools, workplaces, entire restaurants. Then bars, too.
Now sometimes even apartments and outdoor spaces. Can’t smokers
have some places?, John Stossel asks. 

So far, smokers just … take it. But maybe that’s changing. The
town of Westminster, Massachusetts, recently held hearings on
whether to ban the sale of tobacco products altogether, and 500
angry people showed up. One said, “I find smoking one of the most
disgusting habits anybody could possibly do. On top of that, I find
this proposal to be even more of a disgusting thing.” Good for
him.

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