Larry Lee's letter (April 29) promoting the city's smoking ban is yet another example of illogical reasoning and the consequences of government intrusion into our daily lives.
He says using an argument about a ban on overweight people is so ridiculous as to be laughable.
Yet these bans that Lee ridicules are popping up and being promoted across the country by politicians and those tiresome people who are trying to save the human race from itself.
"A smoking ban would create overall fairness," Lee writes. For whom? As the situation exists today in our community, the vast majority of restaurants are non-smoking, while a precious few have smaller designated smoking areas. Some businesses offer a choice. What's wrong with that?
"The air belongs to everyone," Lee writes, but the "everyone" he refers to excludes smokers, even in smaller designated smoking areas.
Also, Lee discounts people who would drive to smoking-friendly cities or counties. I am one of the many who drives from smoking ban counties into others that provide freedom of choice.
Here's a clue: Stay out of the smaller smoking areas in the few restaurants that still provide them.
I choose to not dine in non-smoking restaurants.
By the way, in all fairness, I don't smoke cigarettes. But I do smoke stinking cigars, which I consider one of life's simple pleasures.
This is not about a smoking ban. What Lee and the smoking police want is total control over our daily lives.
The "what's next?" is as real as apple pie.
Karl Penn is a resident of Evansville.
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