>I'm against a law preventing smoking in cars. The reason is that it is not the smoking in the car but the act of disposing (or failure to) of the cigarette butt that is the problem. Isn't littering illegal? What about starting fires from the discarded cigarette butt? He owns that vehicle and should be able to smoke in it if he wants to. It is his personal property. There is no reason smoking should prevent him from driving safely.

Exactly. As they say, ownership is 90% of the law, and in my car the ban on anti-smoking propaganda trumps anything else. Yes, there are the Guinness ashtrays (beer cans with water) that make the butt disposal a no-brainer and a no-problem. Even though nobody smokes in that car anymore, the ban is still in effect ;).

>These laws really concern me. Government is impeding too much into the individual's personal domain. It is littering, dangerous, or reckless driving that is the problem by idiots. That includes putting on makeup while driving, reading while driving, littering (lets be honest - a lot more fast food trash or beer bottles/cans goes out the window and no one is making it illegal to have fast food in the car) et al.

Ditto.