Stories From The Nanny State: Banning Fake Cigarettes

 

"The King County Board of Health passed a controversial proposal Thursday that bans the public use of electronic cigarettes, despite protests that the battery-powered, nicotine-delivery sticks emit no second-hand smoke and are often used for harm reduction." The City of Seattle officials argued that it could lead to eroding "social norms." Social norms however do not fall under the authority of any government. Unless social engineering is now seen as a proper roll of government.  Seattle Health officials went on to say;  


"I would like to see us protect those public places and places of employment from the image of someone sitting at their desk with something that looks identical to a cigarette and puffing on it," she said."That is a very powerful subliminal message." (Seattle PI)

As the Article in the PI stated:

"One man, who drove from Vancouver, B.C. to testify, said e-cigarettes were the only product that had helped him quit a 40-year smoking habit. The man, who said his name was Gary Addleson, said e-cig users don't consider themselves as "smoking."

 

The goal of ban such as these are to limit people even "seeing" someone fake smoking. Which is in of itself is a fascist act, and attempt to control even your prospective of reality. To think that the government opening decided to ban these fake cigarettes in of itself is disturbing. For those of you that haven't seen them, there electronic cigarettes that give off steam to look as tho your are smoking, while the nicotine is administer through the device, not to indifferent from a nicotine gum or patch. Stories like this remind me a quote from C.S. Lewis. 

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. – C. S. Lewis"