What America needs is more warning labels. There just aren’t enough. That’s why I’m so pleased to learn about the efforts of Transportation Nanny Sec. Ray LaHood:

Cigarette packages and alcoholic beverages carry labels warning that they may be hazardous to your health. Should cellphones come with them, too?
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood proposed the idea Tuesday at a conference he convened in Washington to address the issue he has made his pet passion: distracted driving.
The labels would warn that using a cellphone while driving is dangerous.
“That’s something I just thought of while I was sitting there,” LaHood said when the group broke for lunch. “It’s just common sense to me. I’m going to talk to the [cellphone] industry about it.”

But why stop at cellphones? Let’s put warning labels on car doors and steering wheels, too. And maybe there should be roadside signs, right next to the ones that boast about federal stimulus spending. Then we can proceed to giant banners on cellphone towers, Super Bowl ads, and skywriting over interstate highways.