Here’s some anti-smoking idiocy from Kansas:

“The city’s smoking ban never sleeps. Tiffany Hurter, a bartender at Conroy’s, found that out the hard way this week. Hurter became the city’s first nonbusiness owner or manager cited under the city’s workplace smoking ban early Wednesday. Police officers received a tip that the bar was serving drinks after the legal cut-off time of 2 a.m. on Wednesday. A police officer went to the bar, 3115 W. Sixth St., and found no drinking but discovered Hurter smoking a cigarette while talking with a fellow employee and a couple of other friends Hurter had agreed to give a ride. Hurter said she wasn’t aware she was breaking the law and said she didn’t think the ticket was justified. “From my understanding, this was put in to protect employees,” Hurter said. “I don’t understand if he was trying to protect me from myself or what.” Hurter said the one other employee in the establishment also was a smoker, who happened to not be smoking at the time.”

Tiffany, Tiffany, Tiffany, of course the law was designed to protect you from yourself. That’s the point. The politicians who pass these sort of laws believe that people are too dumb to decide these sort of matters for themselves, and given that people keep re-electing the arrogant so-and-so’s, perhaps they have a point…