Guest Post by Eric Peters
Soon, they’ll be coming for your cigarettes.
In your car.
See Sandra Bland.
Or, the study released by the CDC that characterizes “second-hand smoke” as the latest threat to “safety” and (of course) “the children.” It urges what you’d expect: That it be made illegal to smoke in your own car, at least, if “the children” are present.
Possibly even if they’re not.
See Sandra Bland.
Or Daniel McIsaac.
Both were ordered by armed government workers – law enforcers – to put out their cigarettes while sitting in their own cars during a traffic stop. Maybe for “officer safety” (second hand smoke being a “threat”) but probably just to clarify who’s boss.
In the above notorious instances, what the armed government workers did wasn’t legal.
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