The Era of Jackbooted Nags

From Gene Healy, senior editor at the Cato Institute:

The D.C. smoking ban is only the latest example of this trend. More and more public officials are warming up to the idea that the full force of the state should be brought down on people making unhealthy choices. You may not like the smell of secondhand smoke, but what's truly suffocating is a government that’s gone from protecting us from criminals to protecting us from ourselves.