"Smoke-free - or else"

The local newspaper had the front page on this smoking ban idea in our county, and it is making me so mad...

Basically, starting tomorrow, June 1st, 2007, no one will be able to smoke 25 feet away from any building in this county. Why does that make me mad? Because it's taking people's right away and what will it help?

If they are going to pass a law, this extreme, why not pass a law such as no person under the age of 18 can even sit in the smoking section of a restaurant! How many times have you seen babies, or kids there right next to the bar while 20 people are smoking? Or a law where someone will get a ticket if they are smoking in the car with someone under the age of 18? They have click it or ticket already in place...!

Why not have a law that's going to help the children vs. some law that will help people not have to walk next to someone smoking when entering a building, OUTSIDE!