The truth is out, isn’t it?  The smoking ban isn’t strictly about health issues.  We now have proof that it is about “control” and personal preferences of the elite and very little else.  Of course, that should have been obvious when smoking bans included outdoor space where second hand smoke couldn’t possibly affect an innocent bystander, who wasn’t intentionally walking into the line of smoke, but oh well…  Regardless of our failure to see what was right in front of our faces, we have proof of it now.  Yes, now we have proof of the truth as those who think we are stupid, want to include e-Cigs in the smoking ban.

People don’t like smoking and E-Cigs imitate that?  So what?  Why can’t a person have a little break room or go into a toilet stall and enjoy their pretend cigarette?  How does that harm anyone else?  It doesn’t.  So what is the argument?

Let’s hear it.

This ought to be good.

I can’t wait to be told how I need to be protected from harmful whatever.  Of course, if I find it upsetting to see a mother (whom I don’t know) nurse her baby (without being covered up) while I’m trying to eat — that’s too bad?  It has been decreed we have no right to expect common courtesy in that area of co-existence, because someone thinks it is cool for mom’s to nurse and us to be forced to watch, while nasty for people to smoke where we can simply “see” them doing so.  Yeah, seeing that smoke through a window gives us lots of health issues to be concerned about.

There are smoking bans to save the world, even from fake cigarettes.  What a joke.  Save the world?  How about control the world?  That’s more like it.  And here is Chicago right up in the front of the line.

The Chicago City Council’s Joint Finance & Health Committee, with the support of the Mayor’s Office, is planning to hold a hearing on Monday, January 13, 2014, to discuss an ordinance aimed at banning the indoor use of electronic cigarettes anywhere traditional cigarettes are banned.

The full City Council is being pushed to vote on the ordinance January 15, 2014. If passed, the ordinance would change the city code’s definition of “smoking” to include using an electronic smoking device. It would also ban the use of e-cigarettes in public places such as restaurants and bars.

Nanny this and Nanny that!  It’s a situation that will eventually come home to visit us all in ways that some might not suppose as being a possibility.  Time to wake up.  Time to regain our common sense.  Chicago is a good start.

(Footnote:  I’m a non-smoker who is allergic to smoke.)