Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Why I am against getting rid of guns [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Especially here in Austin where you cannot smoke within some-odd feet of a business door, even if you are outside. The anti-smoking web sites are pretty hard to penetrate, so I don't know what their next moves are, but the expensive ad campaigns now have an outside, jogging-in-the-park bent, suggesting the desire to prohibit smoking even outside. At least 2 California cities now do this. Moves beyond that may be to prevent smoking in your own home if there is a child in residence there. This would be hard-line made-in-the-USA puritanical prohibition. Whether its Guns, Gays, Ganja, Gin or Tobacco, the same dynamic seems at play: Supply finds an illegal (and usually violent and corrupt) means to meet the demand. And "taxes," btw, is just another way to spell "prohibition."
Please google up "cigarette smoking." One site after another.