Robert Tracinski förklarar vad som är den riktiga faran med rökförbudet:

The bandwagon of local smoking bans now steamrolling across the nation–from New York City to San Antonio–has nothing to do with protecting people from the supposed threat of ”second-hand” smoke. Indeed, the bans themselves are symptoms of a far more grievous threat, a cancer that has been spreading for decades and has now metastasized throughout the body politic, spreading even to the tiniest organs of local government.

This cancer is the only real hazard involved–the cancer of unlimited government power.

The issue is not whether second-hand smoke is a real danger or a phantom menace, as a study published recently in the British Medical Journal indicates. The issue is: if it were harmful, what would be the proper reaction? Should anti-tobacco activists satisfy themselves with educating people about the potential danger and allowing them to make their own decisions–or should they seize the power of government and force people to make the ”right” decision?

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