The Ban Coming

The Ban Coming

A legal product that injures those who use it voluntarily is now all but outlawed in Ireland. It will be here as well if activists and the nanny-gov't have their way.

We're from the gov't and we're here to protect you . . . from yourself.

When they come for your coffee and your sugars and your fats, well, can you say that you stood when they came for his tobacco?

And what if a neighbor reports him regularly smoking in his home office? Will you decry the "jack-booted gov't thugs" (and they always wear jack-boots) who come to stop this illegal activity? Or will you shrug and say, "No big deal. After all it was that eeeevil tobacco."

If that's is your attitude, I sincerely pray that you never have to see the effects of the slippery slope of gov't nanny-hood in your own home. But I would not bet on it no matter what odds you offered.

Ireland Launches World's Toughest Smoking Ban

DUBLIN, Ireland — Ireland (search) outlawed smoking in workplaces Monday, imposing the strictest anti-tobacco measure ever adopted by any country on earth — and one certain to change the atmosphere in the country's national institution, the pub.

"I guess I'll be staying home a lot more. It'll be the only place I can have a smoke with my drink," said Sean Hogan, a 46-year-old construction worker, who lit a final melancholy cigarette as the barman at the Brian Boru pub in north Dublin (search) called for last orders Sunday night. . . .

[Even] Home-offices, company cars and truckers' cabs are also supposed to become no-smoking zones (search), although the government has conceded that the law won't be enforceable in such private areas.