Nanny State Should BUTT OUT

Rob Breakenridge wrote:When we suddenly awake one day to find that smokers are criminals,
it will seem fitting that prison itself might be one of the few places
left to legally smoke.
A number of federal inmates will argue in court this week that their
rights are being violated by the smoking ban imposed by Correctional
Services Canada last year.
Should the challenge succeed, we can all sit back and marvel at the
baffling legal construct where a convicted murderer would be permitted
to smoke, but it would be forbidden for a trucker to do so.
In Ontario last week, a truck driver was stopped by police and
issued a $305 ticket after being spotted on Highway 401 with a
cigarette in his mouth. You see, the Smoke-Free Ontario Act prohibits
smoking in the workplace -- a trucker's truck is his workplace.
In fact, even if a trucker owns his vehicle and even if no one else
but him drives it, it is still illegal for him to smoke in the truck.
Alberta's own law contains similar provisions, although no such
citations seem to have been issued here. Pardon the pun, but the wheels
have come completely off whatever justification previously existed for
stringent anti-smoking measures.

Miz point wrote:Since cigarettes are so bad for us why does our government not ban them outright? Revenue....gobs of it.

incognito wrote:Seems retarded, and petty. What's the difference between smoking in your car while on the way to work and smoking in a car some lilliputian bureacrat deemed to be your workplace?