Smoking Ban Expansion Signals Freedom Fire
If it is true that where there is smoke there is fire, it is also true that where smoke-bans are expanding, freedoms are burning.
Smoking is a terrible behavior. It is habit-forming. It stinks. It destroys health. It is obnoxious. It ought never to be done. For Christians, such a barrier-building behavior is inexcusable. But in a democracy it is not the government’s place to keep it from happening.
The Dallas Morning News reports that anti-smoking groups, the mayor, and several council members are pushing to expand already draconian restrictions on smoking in Dallas. The expanded ban would prevent smoking even in bars and taverns. People who disdain tobacco’s noxiousness and who do not visit bars and taverns anyway might be tempted to think they are unaffected (at least negatively) by the proposed ban. Read the rest of this entry »
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