>>>Balderdash! The examples impinge only on your right to kill yourself, or have your back-seat kids kill you in an accident - and you a cop and all! OK, smoking in your own home, unless that's qualified to say "where kids are present", say, is a bit much
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>>Yeah, and to the best of my knowledge, no state has such a law. There was a _community_ considering a law that would prohibit smoking in anything other than single family homes because the smoke doesn't stay in the apartment (flat, in your part of the world). I don't know whether that passed.
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>It hasn't passed, AFAIK.
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>The screwy thing about that law is the proponents say things like "Oh, we won't vigorously enforce it. Just like the law about jaywalking. We just want it to handle nuisance cases."
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>Don't they realize that in that case, it diminishes anti-smoking laws *everywhere*?!?!? You can't enforce it in one place (say, restaurants) and not others (apartments). Not and expect it to withstand challenge.
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>They're actually working against themselves.

There should be a law to prevent passing laws that are not intended to be vigorously enforced.
The way it was described it really means that the enforcers are the nuisance - OK one minute and dicks the next.