Perspectives of an Average American Jane.

One of my favorite sites is Sodahead .com, it is a web site that allows the average person to post their opinion or question on a wide variety of topics. One of the questions today is should smoking be banned outdoors? I honestly am against banning a legal activitey, simply because it doesn't work, it drives it underground. Any one familiar with Prohibition? Well if the nannies continue to push this it will become this generations Prohibition. We can legislate all kinds of things, but intelligent choices and freedom to choose our actions will and never should be one of them. I may not like walking through a cloud of smoke to get to my car, but you know what? I have the option of going out another door, I may not like smelling cigarette smoke in the air, but then I also don't like the smell of fertilizer in the air, so do we ban farming? Some people don't like the smell of burning leaves in the fall, I love that smell, reminds me of my childhood. Please remember that any government that is big enough to give us what we want is also big enough to take everything we have.