Lunatic Left Bans Smoking –– At Home!

In a political environment that considers the term “illegal immigrant” racist (and some PC nutcases suggest scrapping the term “criminal” completely), one may wonder if any action is sufficiently heinous to warrant criminal action. Well, dear reader, there is one glaring misdeed universally vilified by those on the left – lighting up a cigarette.
A city that stands out for its excessive smoking regulations, even in one of the bluest of all blue states, has recently approved a measure banning smoking by citizens inside their own residences!
Santa Monica, Calif., city council members voted 4-2 to ban smoking for new tenants of any apartment or condominium. The city already banned smoking in just about every other conceivable situation, meaning officials really had only one place left to go in its mission to criminalize the use of a legal product. I’m glad I was able to quit an unhealthy habit and wish others trying to quit similar success. If a smoker were to move in the townhouse next door, however, my only duty would be to welcome him or her to the neighborhood – period. Where will the intrusion into our private lives end? If left unchecked, the end will likely come only with the complete downfall of this country and everything for which it once stood.
Once in every great while, there are groups successful in their opposition to such smoking bans, but those cases are far outweighed by legislation stifling the rights of individuals. Something tells me if someone suggested outlawing homosexual acts in a private residence simply because the individual found the activity objectionable, there would be considerable outrage on the left and rightly so! Replace a homosexual with a smoker, though, and those rights to personal privacy and liberty are less than irrelevant; they apparently do not exist.