Reality

When you're in your 80s, wouldn't you want freedom? You know your time is up soon, you want to live life, do what you want, and bugger everything else. And then there is this article:

Dr. Robert Guild, 71, says the law is forcing him and other smokers at the Maplewood Gardens Retirement Apartments — some in wheelchairs and walkers — to brave an ice- and snow-covered lawn to get to a structure that is far enough away from the retirement facility to meet the ban's requirements.....

..... The state's new smoking ban, which went into effect Dec. 8, is the strictest in the country. In addition to banning smoking indoors, it requires a 25-foot smoke-free buffer around doorways, windows that open and ventilation intakes.

What a damned pity.
Some overzealous do-gooder gathers up fanatics to push a bill through; as a local govt, you lose your revenue; and your impose your morals on a bunch of folk who will pass on in no time at all.

I understand the intention behind the law. I just think it needs to be liberally peppered with a good thumping dose of reality.


I feel bad for these folk.