It seems like we go through this every year. Last week the Virginia Senate passed the Smoke Free Air Act that prohibits smoking pretty much any place a person might wander. The senate was good enough to except private residences and cars.

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Won't Virginia be great! I can light up a cigar in my own living room without worrying about jack booted thugs beating down my door to snuff me out. Thats freedom!
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I'm not sure what chance this bill has of passing the House. But eventually it will be illegal to smoke pretty much everywhere. Incrementalism has killed smoking, which is a damn shame. I'm not an avid smoker and couldn't care less about cigarettes or smokers. But we did balance all our budgets on cigarette taxes, which means that as the smokers stop buying ciggies the tax man is gonna come after us.

And of course if the first temperence movement is any guide, prohibition will lead to crime, and crime will lead to gun control.

And perhaps most important, nobody should stand idly by and watch legislators negate property rights like this. Private property doesn't seem to matter to these people. So long as your place is "frequented by the public", they think they can tell you what to do with it.