It’s Official, New Hampshire is Smoke Free

 Well, today New Hampshire has officially banned smoking in all bars and restaurants. Let today, September 17th, 2007, go down in New Hampshire history as the day when New Hampshire first began to legislate how people should act, what they can put in their bodies, and where they can put it in their bodies. It only gets worse form here.

  Let me just reiterate, I am a non-smoker (except for a very rare cigar) so I am not pissed that they took My right to smoke away from me, but I am upset that they took somebody’s right away from them. Who the hell does governor Lynch and the new Democrat majority in New Hampshire think they are? When I go to a bar I can chose to go to a smoking bar or a non smoking bar. Or at least I could, not any more. Now the government has stepped in and told private buisness owners what their policies have to be.

  The government of New Hampshire, and by this I mean the liberal John Lynch has decided that he is so damned smart he can tell us what to do with our bodies. And don’t give me the we have to protect the people who work in these establishment line. The employees CHOOSE to work there, if they don’t like the smoke they are subject to they can quit and get another job. If they choose to stay, they know the risks and are willing to take them. The government should stay out and treat us like adults, we don’t need you to hold our hands and change our poo-poo diapers for us.

  Just read the following line from this article:

New Hampshire has long been a haven for those who like their liberty unfettered and their government restrained. The smoking ban symbolizes the reversal of that historic arrangement. The state is gaining power, the individual losing it.

The smoking ban is a serious loss of liberty, and one which makes future encroachments of state power upon individual freedom more easily justifiable for those who wish to force others to behave as they do.

  That sums it up rather nicely. Remember, the more government intrusion you have in you life, the less freedom you have.

  Here is the first comment left on the Union Leader website about this acticle:

Smokers have no rights. Last time I looked, employees have a right to work in an environment that is not hostile. Perhaps Strange Brew will attract a new brand of revolutionary — former employees of bars and restaurants who no longer have to hack and cough and wash their hair and clothes immediately following every shift and who are treated respectfully by their government, if not their employer.

  The writer of this article shows us the mentality of a typical liberal. Smokers have no rights he says. Because he does not approve of a behavior he believes he has the right to regulate or ban such behavior. But what would happen if the government went after something that he enjoyed? I believe his reaction would be much different. Liberals are all too willing to tell other people how to live, but don’t you dare tell them how to live.

  Once you are willing to turn part of you free will over to the government, once you give up that freedom to chose, once you let government intrude in private buisness, once you let government regulate lifestyle, the door is open. The door will remain open, maybe just a crack, and the government will sneak in when you aren’t lokking and steal more and more of your personal choices and replace them with laws.

 September 17, 2007 was the day the New Hampshire began to lose her ability to think for herself. September 17, 2007 was the day we let New Hampshire babysit her residents. September 17, 2007 was the day we can say “New Hampshire, welcome to the Nanny State. Don’t worry New Hampshire, Mommy is here for you.”